Textile Structural Unit Customization for Body-Mapped Garments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for designing and producing footwear and garments lack the ability to efficiently customize textile structural units, such as knit, braided, or woven components, to achieve specific properties like air permeability, thermal conductivity, and moisture wicking, which limits their performance and comfort.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that uses computer-executable instructions to design and produce footwear and garments by allowing users to select and customize textile structural units, including knit, braided, or woven components, through a user interface, which generates design data for knitting machines, enabling the creation of customized products with specific properties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional textile production systems are used, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but customization capability and performance optimization are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The textile production system is divided into modular components including separate knitting machines, dyeing machines, and finishing machines. Each machine can be independently controlled and configured to produce specific textile structural units with desired properties, enabling customization without requiring complete system redesign.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs dynamically adjustable knitting machines that can change production parameters (stitch patterns, yarn types, structural units) during operation. This dynamic reconfigurability allows the same equipment to produce different textile properties on demand, achieving versatility without proportional increase in physical system complexity.
2Productivity
If textile structural units are standardized, then manufacturing efficiency is improved, but performance customization is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system produces textile structural units with locally optimized properties for specific application zones. Different structural units (knit, braided, woven, non-woven) can be created in different regions of the same textile product, allowing performance customization in specific areas while maintaining efficient production through standardized manufacturing processes for each unit type.
3Manufacturing precision
If multiple textile structural units are produced separately, then quality control is improved, but manufacturing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple textile production processes (knitting, braiding, weaving, non-woven formation) are integrated into a unified computer-controlled system that can switch between different production modes. The system merges separate manufacturing capabilities into a single platform that maintains quality control for each process type while reducing overall manufacturing time through coordinated operation and elimination of transfer steps.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for manufacturing a garment, include: receiving garment design input data for a garment design including data representing a first textile structural unit at a first location and data representing a second textile structural unit at a second location; generating a textile production machine instruction data set based on the garment design input data; forming a first garment using a first textile production machine to include the first textile structural unit and the second textile structural unit; creating revised garment design input data for the garment design based on the first garment based on receiving additional body map data relating to the first garment; generating revised textile production machine instruction data set based on the revised garment design input data; and forming a second garment using a textile production machine and the revised garment design input data including the changes to the garment design.