In 2016, China's garment industry still faces the general pressure of traditional manufacturing industry, and the whole industry has entered a period of deep adjustment. On the whole, the investment in the apparel industry of our country has dropped slightly, the export has continued to grow negatively, the growth rate of the domestic market has slowed down, and the production has also dropped slightly. At present, China's garment manufacturing industry has been affected by the problems of rising labor costs and difficulty in recruiting workers. The industry is slowly moving under cost pressure. Looking forward to 2017, the international economy is expected to recover moderately, and the domestic macroeconomy will continue to grow steadily. Under the support of domestic and international markets, facing the opportunities and challenges, China's garment industry is focusing on advancing supply-side structural reforms and accelerating the shift from traditional manufacturing to innovation-driven technology industries. Faced with the new situation of technological progress, the pace of technological change accelerated, the garment industry is urgently required to upgrade its manufacturing system intelligently, use automation technology to reduce costs and enhance efficiency, and realize the breakthrough through differentiation. Apparel through the use of automatic identification technology to achieve the whole process of digital production model, both long-term troubled companies, "recruitment shortage", "labor difficult" and other labor costs climbing problem, you can also reduce the traditional breakthrough manufacturing to smart manufacturing conversion The risk cost in this paper can also crack hard constraints such as energy, resources and environment faced by many enterprises and speed up the capability and efficiency of China's manufacturing transformation and upgrading so as to speed up the manufacturing process of China's manufacturing industry from low-end manufacturing to mid- and high-end manufacturing. Garment industry is one of the earliest adopters of automatic identification technology in our country. The basic characteristics of clothing is more complicated, involving many aspects such as style, fabric, color, model, origin, brand and so on. At the same time, it also has the characteristics of many varieties, small batch, quick update and personalization. In order to fully understand the application of automatic identification technology in the garment industry, standardize the management of standardized product codes and promote the solution to the problems existing in this field in the apparel industry, the China National Garment Association and China Article Coding Center jointly conducted the research on the application of automatic identification technology in apparel industry jobs. Application of automatic identification technology promising Automate supply process management Automated management of raw materials Encodes the purchased materials and affixes the electronic label as the unique identifier, realizes the automatic management of the purchase and storage of raw materials, picking out of the warehouse, shipping out of the warehouse, returning the warehouse to the warehouse, etc. By establishing the material supply Data files, can effectively control the material quality and price. Quick matching orders Ordering materials using the product bar code as a unique identifier, you can ensure that the order and arrival of the goods one by one to avoid confusion, at any time to check the arrival of orders and product quality suppliers held accountable. Tracking the goods in transit Bar code technology as a unique identifier can accurately track the goods in transit, strictly guarantee the arrival time and arrival quantity. Control production costs, improve production quality Control Material Costs Create a unique product barcode for all production materials used, break down product production plans into material plans through each type of product bill of material, calculate trim margin rationally, control material usage per batch and Standard cost deviation. Automatically complete the production statistics and piece counting statistics RFID radio frequency identification technology can automatically complete the product yield statistics, waste statistics, and then statistics of each worker to complete the output, responsible for the residual defective products. Commissioned by the pre-processing control of the product code assigned to the OEM OEM manufacturers, to facilitate the acceptance, sales of goods found quality problems, hold the original manufacturer's responsibility. Achieve automated warehouse management process Rapid product distribution By using RFID radio frequency identification technology, electronic product information written in the order form, you can quickly and effectively achieve the accurate distribution of products. Multi-library collaborative operation through automatic identification technology to achieve warehouse automation, in a matter of a few minutes of the goods and computer information has been entered to check the good, to achieve inventory of goods "visual", easy to view inventory at any time inventory, so that Timely tracking product logistics process. Improve the sorting efficiency In the traditional garment enterprises, garment sorting is an important part of the logistics and distribution system, which directly related to human resources occupy more than 50% of the logistics and distribution system, picking time to occupy the entire distribution operations time 30% to 40% , Picking operation costs accounted for 15% of the total distribution costs ~ 20%, the rational use of automatic identification technology can greatly reduce the sorting operation time and reduce business costs. Improve sales terminal efficiency and effective anti-theft Improve inventory efficiency RFID radio frequency identification technology can be a one-time accurate reading FCL product data, clerks do not need to count the items one by one, through the handheld reader can read 5 to 7 pieces of goods information, greatly reduced Count the time. Anti-theft RFID reader has the characteristics of non-light source environment can be quickly read, can effectively identify moving objects and non-contact non-visual objects. Application of automatic identification technology has great potential In order to fully understand the status quo of the use of automatic identification technology in the garment industry, hundreds of garment enterprises were surveyed, most of them large and medium-sized enterprises and a few other small enterprises. Among the enterprises surveyed, the majority of them are self-owned brand enterprises. Nearly half of the enterprises have over 8,000 SKUs of apparel products, and the apparel products manufactured and run have covered all types of apparel products. According to the survey results, the product bar code plays an important role in garment enterprises such as raw material procurement, storage management, sorting management, product manufacturing and processing, packaging, freight transportation, inventory management, retail settlement, store receipt, store inventory and data exchange effect. Large-scale garment enterprises to use the extent higher than medium and small enterprises. Among them, large and medium-sized garment enterprises in the three aspects of sorting management, inventory management and retail settlement bar code using a higher proportion of large-scale enterprises account for the most part of the inventory management 94.4%, 66.7% for SMEs. In addition, SMEs in the storage and delivery and store receipt links with large enterprises there is still a gap (Figure 1). Automatic identification technology to accelerate the intelligent upgrading of the garment industry Figure 1 commodity bar code cross-sectional analysis of small and medium-sized enterprise applications Product bar code and RFID technology in apparel business application link shown in Figure 2, we can see that at present, China's RFID application in the apparel business compared to the mature product bar code system is still at a low level. Some apparel companies have applied RFID technology to all aspects of the supply chain except for raw material procurement, with the highest level of utilization of storage management reaching 16.22%, followed by inventory management of 13.51%. Besides the procurement of raw materials, the proportion of production and processing products Than the least only 2.7%. Automatic identification technology to accelerate the intelligent upgrading of the garment industry Figure 2 bar code, RFID applications in the clothing business environment According to the feedback from apparel enterprises, RFID can achieve the advantages of fast read and write, high efficiency, good anti-pollution and durability, large information storage capacity and easy management in all aspects of the supply chain. However, at present, there are still some limitations in the application of RFID system in some garment manufacturing environments in our country, mainly due to the high tag cost of RFID electronics and the cost pressure of system reform at this stage. In addition, apparel companies reflect little on the RFID system, lack of professional guidance, but also did not put into use one of the reasons; some companies also believe that the current bar code recognition and material systems have been able to meet production, logistics, retail and other business needs, without Introduced RFID system. Figure 3 RFID in the apparel categories The apparel product categories of RFID applications as shown in Figure 3. Overall, the men's brand accounts for 20.8% of the total valid questionnaires, while women's clothing accounts for 16.7% of the total. Judging from the categories of apparel products, due to the higher profit margin, there are more RFID tags used in sports wear and sportswear, accounting for 29.4% and 34.5% respectively. However, due to the metal parts interfering with RFID tags, the underwear and Clothing accessories use less RFID tags, only 12.5% ​​and 13.3%.