Garment Manufacturing via Digital Pattern Printing
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Solution Overview
Problem
The production of garments like jeans is time-consuming and resource-intensive, requiring multiple treatment steps to achieve a specific appearance, often involving harmful chemicals and complex machinery for post-processing to achieve a 'used look'.
Innovation Solution
A method involving creating a sample garment, digitally mapping its pattern elements, printing these elements onto a flat textile, cutting them to size, and reassembling them to replicate the original garment, using automation to reduce resource usage and eliminate harmful chemicals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional garment production methods are used with multiple treatment steps, then a specific desired appearance can be achieved, but the production process becomes time-consuming and resource-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The desired appearance and structure are integrated into the digital pattern design before production begins. The digital pattern file contains all necessary information about the final garment's look, allowing the garment to be constructed with the desired appearance from the start rather than requiring multiple post-processing treatment steps to achieve the appearance after construction.
Solution Approach 2:
A sample garment with the desired appearance is created first, then scanned to create a digital copy of its pattern elements. This digital copy is used to reproduce the garment, capturing the appearance characteristics in the digital domain and eliminating the need for physical post-treatment steps that would otherwise be required to achieve the same appearance.
2Manufacturing precision
If post-treatment processes are used to achieve specific looks, then the desired appearance can be obtained, but harmful chemicals and expensive machinery are required
Solution Approach 1:
Physical and chemical post-treatment processes (such as bleaching, grinding, lasering, or washing with stones) are replaced by a digital scanning and reproduction system. The appearance characteristics are captured digitally from a sample garment and reproduced through controlled material application during construction, eliminating the need for harmful chemical treatments and expensive specialized machinery.
Solution Approach 2:
The appearance characteristics of the sample garment are copied into the digital pattern file through scanning. This digital copy allows the desired appearance to be reproduced without requiring physical post-treatment processes that use harmful chemicals, as the appearance information is transferred and reproduced through the digital design and construction process.
3Manufacturing precision
If multiple post-processing steps are carried out after assembly, then the appearance can be further developed, but the process becomes extremely complex
Solution Approach 1:
All appearance development is performed preliminarily in the digital pattern design phase. The digital pattern file is created to represent the final desired appearance, and the garment is constructed directly from this digital pattern, eliminating the need for complex post-processing steps that would otherwise be required to develop the appearance after assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The appearance development process is merged with the pattern design and construction process. Instead of separating appearance creation into distinct post-treatment steps, the appearance characteristics are integrated into the digital pattern file and realized during the construction phase through controlled material application, simplifying the overall process by combining what were previously separate operations.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a garment (300), comprising the steps of: a) providing a sample garment (100) composed of several pattern elements (100a-e), b) separating the sample garment (100) into the pattern elements (100a-e), c) digitally mapping the pattern elements (100a-e) to obtain digital images of the pattern elements (100a-e), d) printing elements (300a'-e') based on the digital images onto at least one planar textile (200), e) optionally cutting the textile (200) into individual parts (300a-e), each comprising at least one of the printed elements (300a'-e'), and f) joining the elements or individual parts (300a-e) to form the garment (300) according to the sample garment (100). The present invention also relates to a garment (300) manufactured according to the inventive method.Furthermore, the present invention relates to a system (1) for manufacturing a garment (300).