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...
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...
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 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...
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...
“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...
The RFID technology is largely known in the apparel industry. Companies like the Inditex brand Zara, the german fashion retailer Adler or Gerry Weber already rely on it and expect more transparency as well as savings up to several millions of euros from it. In the professional clothing sector, the tiny technology expands in a ... Read more...