The EU promotes the garment industrial revolution and forms a processing value chain

According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, the European Union’s Seventh R&D Framework Program (FP7) provides 3.6 million euros in funding, with a total R&D investment of 5.2 million euros. The 9 EU member states and associated countries Germany (general coordinator), the Netherlands, Tunisia, and Italy , Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland and Spain, the European OPENGARMENTS R&D team composed of the garment industry and technology circles and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). After more than 4 years of hard work, the Internet and cloud computing have been used to successfully develop a set of clothing industry technology series that combines “Mass-Personal-Customisation” (Mass-Personal-Customisation), which will start a revolution in the EU clothing industry. .
The innovative clothing industry technology series mainly consists of three parts: 1) The concept of “open innovation” allows consumer groups or business partners to share technical knowledge for improving clothing products online, just like the “Wikipedia” of the clothing industry. Or “open source software”; 2) The concept of “open manufacturing” means that it is not necessary to have your own clothing manufacturing company, but to use a large number of flexible clothing production small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) instead, which can provide small batch customization or even single-piece product customization services; 3 ) “Open management” concept, the management team recommended by the stakeholders exercises power within the prescribed scope, just like the brain or central nervous system to ensure the management and coordination of the system, organically connecting consumers, manufacturers, and sellers to provide consumption Design and customize “Toolkits”, as well as “Back-Office” services such as financial settlement, production planning, product tracking, etc.
In order to transform simple online clothing shopping into a happy consumption business model in which consumers can decide independently, design by themselves, have outstanding personality and have reasonable costs, the R&D team has also developed related supporting technologies. For example, “tailor-made” technology can provide one-stop printing, cutting and sewing services based on consumers’ simple sizes and complex designs. “Smart printing” technology is a new technology that can automatically optimize the color pattern design printed on paper and print the properties of different inks and dyes on fabrics with different degrees of stretch. “Continuous production” factory technology can combine large-scale and customized production of single products through the effective connection of a large number of upstream and downstream participants to form the entire production and processing value chain, etc.