The FBD_BModel Consortium will showcase its cloud-based big data technology platform during its final workshop this month (February 2021).
The platform uses ‘state-of-the-art’ technologies and allows partners to develop new data-driven services for functional and personalised, tailor-made design, the Consortium says.
“The FBD_BModel platform reinvents the concepts of design, supply chain and product and offers a way to gather and evaluate large quantities of data and carry out specific functional and biometric simulations, as well as allowing users to trade materials and processes digitally throughout the supply chain," explains the Consortium.
“Companies can interact with the platform in real time, select suppliers and processes, plan production, optimise their products and configure their supply network.”
The FBD_BModel platform also includes a recommendation system for designers and a graphical interface for end consumers so they can be involved in designing their garments, specify their hand feel and skin feel preferences, wear thermal comfort requirements, as well as biometric fitting needs with opportunities to select the fabrics and fit styles.
“These features are the most intriguing for professionals and customers as they offer a customisation possibility with superlative potential,” the FBD_BModel Consortium says.
“As well as improving design and end products, our new business models offer a way to optimise production cycles and play a major role in monitoring parameters directly linked to the environmental impact, showing a way to guarantee sustainability throughout a product’s life cycle.”
The development of the platform stands alongside ongoing efforts to highly digitise the supply chain.
The organisation explains that the development of information technologies provides the possibility of transforming the classical labour-intensive supply chain into digital value chains, composed of networked units for design and small series local production to meet consumers’ personalised requirements.
According to the organisation, the FBD_BModel project – which began in 2017 – brought together 14 partners from across Europe to 'revitalise the textile and clothing industry in Europe' by defining new markets, new production scenarios and business models using its advanced digital services platform.
The FBD_BModel Consortium will showcase this platform during its final workshop on 19 February 2021.
FBD_BModel Workshop participants will have the opportunity to see the solution in action and how a new business model can be changed with big data and contribute to the discussion on hot topics and new trends: customised small series production for ecommerce, nearshoring, resilience and sustainability models, all enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and big data-based services.
For more information, visit www.fbd-bmodel.eu
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