OPEN GARMENTS
Consumer Open Innovation and Open Manufacturing Interaction for Individual Garments
| Coordinatore | DEUTSCHE INSTITUTE FUR TEXTIL- UND FASERFORSCHUNG DENKENDORF
Organization address
city: DENKENDORF contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Germany [DE] |
| Totale costo | 5˙165˙800 € |
| EC contributo | 3˙614˙960 € |
| Programma | FP7-NMP
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-NMP-2007-SME-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-TP |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-09-01 - 2011-08-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
DEUTSCHE INSTITUTE FUR TEXTIL- UND FASERFORSCHUNG DENKENDORF
Organization address
city: DENKENDORF contact info |
DE (DENKENDORF) | coordinator | 696˙580.00 |
| 2 |
Nome Ente NON disponibile
Organization address
address: WETENSCHAPSPARK 1/9 contact info |
BE (DIEPENBEEK) | participant | 670˙500.00 |
| 3 |
KATHOLIEKE HOGESCHOOL LIMBURG VZW
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITAIRE CAMPUS GEBOUW B BUS1 5 contact info |
BE (DIEPENBEEK) | participant | 453˙580.00 |
| 4 |
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
Organization address
address: Schoemakerstraat 97 contact info |
NL (DEN HAAG) | participant | 322˙500.00 |
| 5 |
PEPPERMINT HOLDING GMBH
Organization address
address: HAMMERTAL 5 contact info |
DE (FRANKENBERG) | participant | 268˙800.00 |
| 6 |
CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE & TECHNIQUE DE L'INDUSTRIE TEXTILE BELGE
Organization address
address: RUE MONTOYER 24/2 contact info |
BE (BRUXELLES) | participant | 168˙400.00 |
| 7 |
TXT E-SOLUTIONS SPA
Organization address
address: Via Frigia 27 contact info |
IT (MILANO) | participant | 162˙400.00 |
| 8 |
UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT
Organization address
address: MARTELARENLAAN 42 contact info |
BE (Hasselt) | participant | 158˙220.00 |
| 9 |
ERGOSFT AG
Organization address
address: Moosgrabenstrasse 13 contact info |
CH (ALTNAU) | participant | 155˙100.00 |
| 10 |
ANDROME IBERICA SL
Organization address
address: CONSTANCA 5 contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 149˙000.00 |
| 11 |
BOONDOGGLE B.V.
Organization address
address: Czaar Peterstraat 155 contact info |
NL (Amsterdam) | participant | 131˙800.00 |
| 12 |
STE PLAT-FORME INDUSTRIELLE DE CONFECTION PLATICO SARL
Organization address
address: ROUTE DE SIDI AMEUR contact info |
TN (SAHLINE) | participant | 100˙300.00 |
| 13 |
FARTPOL II JAN SNIEGOCKI
Organization address
address: Rybacka 13 contact info |
PL (GRABOW NAD PROSNA) | participant | 95˙680.00 |
| 14 |
VOF MAX JUWELIER & EDELSMEDERIJ
Organization address
address: RAADHUISPLEIN 28 contact info |
NL (HOOGKARSPEL) | participant | 82˙100.00 |
| 15 |
BOONDOGGLE (IRELAND) LIMITED
Organization address
address: St. Catherine's Lane West 4 contact info |
IE (DUBLIN) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The overall objective of Open Garments is the Manufacturing Service Provider (MSP) Business Model enabling individual garments. This model will enable a new way of design, production and sales of consumer designed and configured garments, based on the provision of individualised services and products to customers and partners. This will lead to new product designs, to a much more customer satisfaction, and to an improvement of the stability and competitiveness of SMEs. Applying this the European Textile and Clothing Industry will be able to create and provide individual garments with a very high degree of customisation in terms of fit, fashion and function at a comparable price in typically 72 hours. The idea is to empower the consumer as designer, producer and retailer for individual garments by (1) taking the creativity and the willingness of consumers by means of web-based virtual communities of individuals, (2) adopting and integrating (mainly) existing digital technologies for design and production of individual garments in a framework of Open Innovation and (a new concept of) Open Manufacturing, and (3) turning this into a new MSP concept for SMEs with an appropriate business model and tools, which coordinates, supports and manages the Open Innovation community and the Open Manufacturing network. Targeted results are (1) the concept of Open Innovation for individual garments together with free tools and working virtual communities, (2) the concept of Open Manufacturing for flexible and quick manufacturing of individual garments, together with tools and working micro-plants in micro-enterprises, (3) adopted technologies for digital fabric printing and Rapid Manufacturing of accessories, and (4) a business model for the knowledge based MSP together with design and production tools and services for Open Innovation and Open Manufacturing. The MSP business model will be developed, implemented and tested in real industrial environments.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Advanced online technology is enabling consumers to design and produce their own clothing and accessories just the way they want them. The technology represents a dynamic, flexible, cost-effective and rapid new model of creation and production.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Imagine a clothing boutique where you can walk in, design what you want to wear and take it home with you. While this vision might only be practically realised in the future, an online version of such a forward-thinking scenario has already been developed. The EU-funded project 'Consumer open innovation and open manufacturing interaction for individual garments' (Open Garments) created an online business prototype for customised garments and accessories.
The project adopted current technologies for designing and producing these products under a platform of open innovation and open manufacturing aimed to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The model was developed with the input of consumers and was tested in actual industrial environments, facilitated by digital textile printing and additive manufacture. Different online toolkits were developed to provide relevant functions, as for design crowd-sourcing, product configuration, and production planning, accounting, logistics and tracking of products, as well as consumer networking.
Overall, the developed prototype proved its efficiency in the configuring, buying, selling, improving and sharing of designs and fabrics of garments and accessories. The process incorporated high-tech mechanisms and features, such as colour-consistent digital textile printing and advanced made-to-measure personalisation through the Internet.
Project results were disseminated (see e.g. http://vimeo.com/28945212) through social networking, conferences and exhibitions. In the meantime, the project team developed an exploitation plan to promote uptake of the technology and encourage society to embrace it. This will help SMEs provide customised products quickly and efficiently, in particular for made-to-measure clothing or special requests. This automated 'plug-and-produce' solution is bound to increase the competitiveness of SMEs and provide consumers with products that are much closer to what they really want. A new revolution in clothing may have just arrived.