Industry 4.0 _ How will the nonwoven production of tomorrow look like?

17th World Textile Conference AUTEX 2017 - Shaping the Future of Textiles

Cloppenburg, F.^1 ; Münkel, A.^1 ; Gloy, Y.^1 ; Gries, T.^1

RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Machinery, Institute for Textile Technology, Otto-Blumenthal-Str. 1, Aachen

52074, Germany^1

关键词: Assistance system;    Big Data Analytics;    digitalization;    Industrial revolutions;    Non-wovens;    Nonwoven industry;    Nonwoven producers;    Self-optimization;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/254/13/132001/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/254/13/132001

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Industry 4.0 stands for the on-going fourth industrial revolution, which uses cyber physical systems. In the textile industry the terms of industry 4.0 are not sufficiently known yet. First developments of industry 4.0 are mainly visible in the weaving industry. The cost structure of the nonwoven industry is unique in the textile industry. High shares of personnel, energy and machine costs are distinctive for nonwoven producers. Therefore the industry 4.0 developments in the nonwoven industry should concentrate on reducing these shares by using the work force efficiently and by increasing the productivity of first-rate quality and therefore decreasing waste production and downtimes. Using the McKinsey digital compass three main working fields are necessary: Self-optimizing nonwoven machines, big data analytics and assistance systems. Concepts for the nonwoven industry are shown, like the "EasyNonwoven" concept, which aims on economically optimizing the machine settings using self-optimization routines.