Digital sourcing
Sourcing more rapidly, sourcing more on target – online procurement platforms make it possible. Lilliffer Seiler Read more...
Category IT technologies
Sustainability 2.0 – Opportunities in digitalising the textile and fashion industry
Digitalisation and disruptive technologies – few ideas are currently as electric in their effects; few developments have caused such a rethink. Business practices are being completely revolutionised; existing systems, which were still functioning even in the last decades, have long been overtaken. This digital transformation is providing major opportunities, not just to enhance affluence and ... Read more...
Identifying hidden costs using IT
Where once there was a metal workshop, there now stands Bullmer, an international company with involvement all over the world. Automated machinery for materials handling, material flow and automated cutting processes create products destined for the aeronautics and furniture industries, as well as for the clothing industry. One of the centrepieces of Bullmer’s work is ... Read more...
Industrial digital ecosystems – the fourth Industrial Revolution?
Incorporating all the new buzz words such as IIoT, IoP, IoS, digital factory, Digital IQ, Digital ecosystems, CPS, 3D BDA and much else, there is so much hype about Industry 4.0 from governments, key consulting companies, industry experts and academics, that it is being said ‘we stand on the cusp of a fourth Industrial Revolution’ ... Read more...
3D CAD comes of Age
‘3D is here and it’s transforming the way brands can design, develop and produce fashion. It has the power to digitize a $1.3 trillion industry, and consequently deliver huge business value by making the industry faster, more sustainable, and freer to be innovative and creative’. Optitex Lilliffer Seiler Read more...
Industry trend: Microfactory
On the way to Industry 4.0: at the upcoming Texprocess trade fair, a ‘Digital Textile Micro Factory’ will present a live demonstration of an integrated production chain for apparel. In collaboration with the German Institutes for Textile and Fibre Research in Denkendorf and a number of well-known companies in the textile sector, Texprocess will, in ... Read more...
Gentle textiles for high skin compatibility
“The trousers are rough!” or “The shirt’s collar is so scratchy!” Kids are hyper sensitive and thus sometimes refuse to wear certain things. But not only kids and people with special diseases have sensitive skins. Nobody likes scratchy clothing and sore skin. Researchers at the Hohenstein Institute work on the problem. They have developed a ... Read more...