Seven Taiwanese textile companies under the aegis of Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) are showcasing their intelligent/smart textile machinery and innovative solutions at the ongoing ITMA 2019. Pai Lung, Logic Art, AK Dyeing, ACME, CCI Tech, Tai Ho Shing (THS), and Taiwan Giu Chun (TCH) are displaying at the seven-day fair. Pai Lung’s MES solution provides perfect repetition on fabrics with error rate less than 1 per cent. It achieves this, thanks to POMS—which is a command center that can give orders to all machines to achieve production target, and KFMS (Knitting Fabric Management System)—a complete database to help customer to realise Datamation. LA-210 machine from Logic Art is an innovation for dye house intelligent integration, allowing automated production centered in product development, brand creation and facilities improvement. An intelligent system with signal control, data process until the production integration, including big data analysis and the intelligent automation, doing operative control. AK-DSL 2018 machine from AK Dyeing has washing-smart wash system and hybrid technology to reduce 30-40 per cent wastewater discharge. Sensor (steam, water, electric consumption, machine run speed, chemical injection rate, fabric run speed) are all embedded in the machine to provide digital operation data. At the press conference on second day of ITMA, ACME exhibited AM-ICD, a smart machine that reduces the necessary evil of the conventional dyeing machine with 65 per cent water reduced, 65 per cent pollution reduced, and 65 per cent chemical, energy and power saved. CCI Tech’s automated sampling solution only requires as minimum as 1 bobbin to complete the whole process from sizing, warping to weaving. And the lead time for making a sample fabric, can be easily shorten from few weeks to just a few hours. THS’s Rosso Method is an automatic linker machine that essentially joins the two open ends of the open sock together. This method reduces the traditional three steps hand linking into only one step. In addition, it reduces 30-50 per cent of the total production time. TCH’s double bed warp knitting produces lateral contraction garment flexible tapes, with high production, saving space and less maintenance. The cord knitting machine produces shoelace, ropes, glassed string and decorative cords with flat, round, triangle or quadrilateral shape. According to Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI), the export value of textile machinery from January to December 2018 was $1.02 billion, up nearly 1 per cent from the previous year.
