Nowadays, technological innovation has profoundly changed people's lifestyles, and the development of "clothing", which ranks first in "clothing, food, housing, and transportation", must adapt to and even lead the changes brought about by technological development. As an important carrier of social, economic and cultural development, clothing is also the main embodiment of the elements of fashion innovation. At present, technological innovation plays a more prominent role in the development of the clothing industry. The future development blueprint of the clothing industry will be deeply affected by technological innovation.

As a representative of the traditional manufacturing industry, clothing has been developing along the track of traditional production models. Factors such as intensive labor, high-intensity operations, and low production efficiency have been restricting the development of the clothing industry. With the continuous progress of clothing technology, more and more applications of intelligent software and automatic clothing equipment will solve the development problems of the clothing industry and continue to help enterprises to increase production efficiency. The innovation of new software, new technology, and new clothing equipment provides a strong technical guarantee for the development of the clothing industry.

Digitization is the production method of future clothing

The use of machinery and equipment for flow operations is the mainstream production mode of the garment industry. Faced with the current problems of recruitment, cost and efficiency, garment industry enterprises must use garment technology to arm themselves, improve their core competitiveness, and accelerate the transformation of production models.

With the in-depth research and development of clothing technology equipment, more and more high-efficiency, automated, and humanized clothing equipment have replaced traditional clothing equipment applications. For example, smart cloth and computer cutting machines have changed manual cloth-spreading and cutting operations. The rapid improvement of efficiency; the application of special sewing clothing equipment has changed the production efficiency of the workshop; the development of peripheral technology clothing equipment; the rapid development of embroidery, printing, and home textile clothing equipment are also constantly changing the status quo of the clothing industry?? But these equipment Factors such as high technical requirements for employees, large differences in different process requirements, and unsynchronized work efficiency have severely restricted the efficiency of workshop production. Now the application of new technical clothing templates has solved this problem. The clothing template combines clothing craftsmanship and clothing model technology, and changes the process operation mode by setting different template types, which improves production efficiency, reduces worker technical requirements, and promotes standardization, streamlining and modernization of workshop production.

In the future, clothing production will move towards the digital age. Intelligent software, automated mechanical clothing equipment, new technologies, novel materials applications, new processes such as 3D technology, robotic operations, and automation technology applications, as well as a complete set of streamlined, modernized, and digital solution services, The production model in the digital age will subvert the tradition and promote the development of the apparel industry.

For example, the Canadian Gene Technology Company applies RFID identification technology to the field of garment hanging production line management, rewriting the history of the global current hanging production line that cannot produce small batches, multiple varieties, and various complex garments at the same time, and solves the traditional garment industry from sewing to The "bottleneck" in the production process management of various processes such as back-end.

At the same time, a clothing technology company in Georgia in the United States is about to launch "Robot Tailor". Its developer declared that "because robots do not need to sleep, take vacations, are distracted, and will not ask for a raise, the robot will eventually be cheaper than human labor. ".

It can be seen that the continuous advancement of intelligent, digital, automated, and humanized new technologies and products has absolute value for enterprises and employees. It has unprecedentedly changed the operating methods of the traditional clothing industry and has improved the pace of enterprise development and modernization. The transformation and upgrading of the apparel industry has truly ushered in the production model of the digital age.

Intelligence is the way to design future clothing

Apparel application software has changed the operation mode of the clothing industry’s design and technical departments. Traditional handwork has been converted into computerized digital and intelligent operations. Two-dimensional style design software has changed the hand-painted design mode. Three-dimensional styles will follow the design, prototype and fitting , The development mode of catwalks subverts the traditional mode of the entire clothing industry. The popularization and application of clothing CAD and craft sheets have improved the efficiency of the technical layout room. The design, grading, layout, craft sheets and model management of the model are all completed with intelligent software, combined with input and output automatic clothing equipment. High efficiency operation.

The functional design requirements of smart clothing put forward higher technical requirements for future fashion designers. It is conceivable that the functional requirements of future clothes will no longer be limited to heat preservation, waterproofing, breathability, etc., but will be more inclined to electronic and biological communication clothing, which may serve as computers, mobile phones, antibiotics and other intelligent functions. The American media even predicts that the future of clothing will become a true "multifunctional portable high-tech product." And 3D printing technology, including automatic 3D body measurement, automatic 3D plate making, and 3D weaving, is entering the clothing industry. At the 2013 Paris Fashion Week, a variety of 3D printer-made clothing was displayed. This clothing can be completed at home Design and production methods are worthy of attention and thinking in the fashion design industry.

"Two" integration into the future supply chain model

The business process of clothing companies is very complicated and cumbersome. Many clothing companies need to process hundreds of inventory units every day, and manage countless styles, structures, customer identifications and even more data. In this kind of highly complex business management, supply chain management characterized by accurate forecasting, purchase management, production planning and distribution management is particularly important. In this supply chain, three levels are embodied-logistics chain, information chain and value chain. The logistics chain is to realize the circulation of things in the best way, the value chain is to increase the value of products in the logistics process, and the information chain is the guarantee for the realization of the first two chains. In the future, ERP software, customer relationship management (CRM) software, electronic seals, Internet of Things and RFID radio frequency identification technology, global positioning system, laser scanner and other information sensing equipment will be popularized and applied in the clothing industry. Electronic information technology will be widely used in In all aspects of industrial production, informatization has become a conventional means of industrial enterprise operation and management, realizing intelligent identification, positioning, tracking, monitoring and management, driving industrialization with informatization, and promoting informatization with industrialization. The integration of "two industrializations" will be a tradition The apparel industry supply chain is a powerful means to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Cloud platform to create future clothing sales methods

Survey data from the Ministry of Commerce show that my country's e-commerce transaction volume is growing at a rate of 20% per year. Increasingly superior online shopping sites and ubiquitous mobile shopping applications provide shoppers with new and simple shopping patterns.

When the vast majority of consumers are accustomed to online shopping, physical retail stores are likely to become exhibition halls for retail merchandise, providing only services for consumers to choose and order products. More and more customers who want to buy bargains try on products in physical stores and then buy them online. This model is somewhat similar to the current Apple Store, which redefines the role of the retail store-not only selling things, but also dedicated to developing customer relationships and enhancing brand height.

In a traditional clothing store, it is tiring to line up to try on one by one. In the near future, in clothing sales stores, consumers will no longer have to try on a lot of clothes in crowded fitting rooms. They only need to enter a room and scan the customers with a 3D body scanner specially set up in the store. In less than a minute, you can get the buyer's multi-angle body size, and then upload these size data to a computer, which creates a 3D image and provides a series of beautiful body shapes and styles of clothing , Customers can choose at will and see the effect of fitting in the virtual fitting mirror. This is the 3D virtual fitting system, which has now been used in well-known clothing brand stores abroad, such as Uniqlo. At present, many domestic companies have developed 3D fitting mirror products. The technology is generally not mature and the try-on has not yet achieved the desired effect. However, technological improvements are developing rapidly. We can foresee the near future. We are in clothing companies, shopping malls, and homes. It is possible to see it.

In addition, clothing companies have a dream: clothing can be produced according to customer needs, customers will give a higher value brand premium, while clothing companies do not keep any inventory, to minimize risks. The intelligent customization system will make this dream shine into reality. Shanghai Yili is such an information enterprise in the clothing industry. It took more than two years to subvert the custom model of the traditional clothing industry and create a modular standard model that promotes services with offline experience through online marketing. Integrate the three systems of ERP, physical chain stores and online chain malls at one time, with light assets and zero inventory. At the same time, the "PDM system" developed by Shanghai Yili transforms tailoring knowledge in the clothing industry into standardized knowledge through intelligent information The system uses data analysis to obtain actual consumer shopping habits and trends.

3D scanning human body data, rapid response to fashion trend data, personalized customization, virtual fittings, virtual wardrobes, 3D interactive display windows-the new sales model of clothing in the future will require large data storage space and computing power to achieve, cloud computing will enable clothing This development of the industry becomes possible.

DIY interaction is the way to buy future clothing

The brand-new distribution channels and logistics systems opened up by e-commerce have the incomparable communication and sales advantages of traditional sales channels, and “touching the Internet” is naturally inevitable. In fact, the e-commerce of traditional clothing companies does not mean low-price promotions, but the use of the Internet, an information platform, to collect fashion trends and consumer habits more quickly to meet consumers' shopping needs.

Imagine that when people find a set of clothes they want, they take a photo and search the Internet to find the designer and the nearest store, and then form a three-dimensional portrait on their mobile phone, and then they can see that set of clothes is wearing on themselves The effect on the body can be modified by DIY on a tablet device. Finally, friends can watch it online and provide comments. This will make clothing purchase easier, faster, and full of DIY interactive fun.

The well-known Taobao.com has established a buyer application center platform. The technology mainly includes three parts: "virtual wardrobe", "virtual fitting room" and "dream holographic display cabinet". Among them, the clothes that will be used as catwalks at the press conference have been implanted. Clothing, live experience can not only see the dazzling catwalk display, but also can try on and match the displayed clothing through 3D clothing experience technology. Although the current technology is not very mature, it can see the future development trend.

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Shopping malls are like battlefields and garment processing factories in the middle of the garment industry chain. The biggest problem now is how to keep up with the changes in the development trend of the industry. The problem is like the enemy. First, you must analyze and understand it, understand the specific situation of your own factory, and then make A route that allows factories to manage problems and continue to develop. Only when the factory is fully prepared, can it take the initiative to attack, and can it come in like a cloud and make money.