纺织工业如何实现更高程度的可持续发展？通过采用循环模式、低影响材料和高效制造。来自芬兰的数字化企业 Spinnova 与 Siemens 合作，运用 Siemens Xcelerator 产品组合中的技术，开发出独特的解决方案。
纺织行业正面临着对天然纤维和可持续生产方式日益增长的需求。Spinnova 凭借其独特的工艺，完美兼顾了这两者。该工艺仅需极少的水和能源，不采用任何有害化学品，并显著减少二氧化碳排放。Spinnova 的技术通过模拟蜘蛛织网的自然过程，使客户能够利用纤维素原材料生产纺织纤维。这种独辟蹊径的方法，最终使产出的纤维在外观和触感上都与天然纤维极为相似。
通过构建整厂仿真模型，对全部产线、机器设备、生产区域、配方信息及物料流转进行全面模拟。这些基于数字化的优化工作，不仅能缩短产线的调试周期，还使得操作人员能够在实际投产前完成培训。
Spinnova 运用产品数字孪生技术，对最终产品配方的研发、设计、优化及一致性进行验证。这确保了从原材料到成品纤维的整个过程中，品质始终稳定可靠。
Spinnova 的目标是在最需要的地方实现可持续纤维的本土化生产。依托 Siemens 全球领先的技术实力与行业专长，Spinnova 已蓄势待发，致力于从根本上重塑纺织工业的生态足迹。
Spinnova is transforming the way textiles are manufactured globally. According to the UN, the fashion industry generates 92 million tons of waste annually. Spinnova innovates and develops the breakthrough patented technology for making textile fibers that are much more sustainable compared to, for example, conventional cotton.
Spinnova’s technology enables customers – raw material producers, fiber producers, and textile industry players – to produce textile fiber from variety of cellulosic raw materials through a mechanical process that mimics how spiders weave their webs. This unique production process results in fibers that look and feel similar to natural fibers such as cotton and linen.
As a sustainable Digital Enterprise, Spinnova offers fiber producing technology that has a low carbon footprint and hardly uses any water. With a digital-first mindset, the company combines the real and digital worlds with software and a harmonized automation system from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to design, realize and optimize its product and production processes.
Data is key, and our technology such as Industrial Edge enables Spinnova to converge IT and OT data to track KPIs like energy consumption in near real-time and make them transparent to customers and partners. At the Woodspin factory, Spinnova demonstrates its technology on an industrial scale.
The main challenge to producing their fiber on an industrial scale was the lack of existing technology. Spinnova had to develop ways to automate and control the processes, create quality metrics and set standards. Working with us, from the pilot to an industrial demonstration factory, helped overcome the technology hurdles and scale up production faster.
Spinnova uses our automation hardware, instrumentation, drives, motors, simulation software, engineering software, and Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) solutions. We developed the OT network in collaboration with Spinnova, and it is protected by our holistic cybersecurity concept to secure production and IP.
At Oxford University, I heard about the similarities between spider silk and nanofibrillated cellulose. I wanted to create the exact same flow of fibers that happens inside the spider, but only using wood fibers.
