Research & Development

MYNET is sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is a joint research project within the framework of “Research for tomorrow's production”, covering the topic of “Customer-specific products at the price of comparable standard products (KIP)”. The objective of MyNet (in the area of customer-specific production of clothing) is the seamless networking of the customer - vendor - producer - supplier chain, via a cross-company information and communication platform - this will achieve a seamless process cycle and utilize existing system infrastructures at the same time, reducing the delivery time of customer-specific products and minimizing the extra costs associated with KIP products.  This in turn will create the cornerstone for implementing the “customer-specific mass production” production model for the apparel sector in a way which appeals to the market as a whole.

Further information: www.human-solutions.com/mynet/index.shtml

Within the framework of this BMBF-sponsored project, innovative VR technologies will be researched and developed into realistic, three-dimensional and realtime-capable simulations and visualizations of individual, virtual customers and items of clothing. In exemplary manner, these new technologies will be integrated into value-added and product creation processes in the apparel sector and evaluated - creating the technological foundations for the development of virtual reality consumer applications. The customer and the apparel will then be embedded in a VR world. The customer can actually see himself in a “virtual mirror” and can try on virtual items of clothing in the virtual world.

Further information: www.human-solutions.com/virtualtryon

The joint research project ‘Bekleidung nach Maß’ opens up excellent opportunities for the German textile and apparel industry to utilize Mass Customization for generating new market potential through the production of industrial and economically-manufactured customized clothing. In this project, a worldwide first was created - an entire process chain - from automated measurement of the customer with 3D body scanning, to individual cut construction and the production of a gent's sports coat - was implemented into a prototype model workshop with a central production control system.

Further information: www.bekleidung-nach-mass.de

The objective of the E-TAILOR project is to integrate 3D body scanning and advanced CAD methods into E-commerce applications in the European apparel industry. The project is intended to prepare the basic technologies for the entire process chain for the sale of customer-specific items of clothing via E-commerce and to realize a prototype of the necessary infrastructure.

Here the following three areas will be examined:

• the creation of a suitable infrastructure to solve the sizes problem in the EU. This in effect means a Europe-wide standardization of the sizes system and the carrying out of serial measurement programs to obtain current body dimension information about the population, with the objective of updating garment sizes tables.
• Development of a “customized clothing infrastructure” - the manufacture of customer-specific apparel.
• The creation of a virtual sales prototype platform for customer-specific apparel.

The E-Tailor Cluster (ETC) project, sponsored by the EU, was founded to develop common standards for the integration of contact-free 3D entire body measurement, advanced CAD methods and personalized avatars in the European apparel industry, by creating a synergetic connection between the “E-Tailor”, “Fashion Me” and “Center For 3D Electronic Commerce” projects.

Further information: www.atc.gr/eT-Cluster

The European Center of Individual Production (ECIP) project stands for the individualization and manufacture of customer-specific products at prices that are comparable with those of conventional mass production. The “Mobile ECIP” goes one step further and brings the technology to the end user. The Scanliner was eventually realized – it is a mobile showroom, which can take body scanning technology almost anywhere.