Integrated software tailored to European fashion – CORDIS News

An integrated software and cutting methods for new fabrics allow the fashion world offers personalized services profitably.

The project EU-funded TAILORFIT is developing software and automatic cutting technologies that will increase the profitability of companies engaged in fashion from Italy and other countries and enable them to offer personalized and tailored menswear quickly and at competitive prices. “All companies that are dedicated to men’s fashion care about providing customized products,” explained Mirko Zilli, executive director of Crea Solution and project coordinator. “This market is lucrative, but the costs are too high.”

The project six months TAILORFIT provides automated to help pioneer the field of fashion create customized products with greater speed and efficiency technologies. This target will be mainly reached through the integration and automation of the entire process, from when the order is received until the personalization of the garment. While existing technologies to manufacture automated measurement, these do not offer the ability to manage the process to complete but it separated into phases.

We are convinced that the results of this project will have a huge market potential both for SMEs and for large fashion companies, “Zilli said. “Our main objective is, of course, Italian companies, but not overlook the Asian European, US and. For us, what matters is that want to automate the production of customized products. Our job is to develop the software and a production process endowed with a new cutting system which will increase efficiency and productivity. “

If the measures and customer preferences -obtained you receive in a store or even anywhere in the world via the Internet-are sent to the section of design and project management, where textures, colors, patterns and fabrics are chosen appropriate and necessary modifications are made using computer-aided design (CAD) . This integrated and intelligent CAD-based system generates a designer suit optimized and tailored. The software has a system of artificial vision of high resolution can interpret woven stripes and checks and ensure consistency between these patterns to cut them.

The software identifies the optimum during manufacture depending on the fabric cut and physical characteristics (for example, patterns of tissue) and cuts quickly, achieving a saving of time and raw material. “For demonstrations has acquired a cutting plant to be modified for this purpose, ‘said Zilli. “Before the end of the project another plant additional cut will be acquired.”

It is also working on the development of a product configurator 3D will be integrated into websites selling to customers and businesses. This will ensure that users enjoy a realistic representation of the appearance of your model and texture. The TAILORFIT project will end in December 2015.

For more information, see:
website Create Solution

Source: Based on an interview with the project coordinator TAILORFIT

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