Textile Structural Unit Layout for Custom Performance 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 can result in products that do not meet desired performance benefits.
Innovation Solution
A computer-aided design system that allows users to select and manipulate textile structural units, including knit, braided, and woven components, using a user interface to customize footwear and garment designs, with features like color selection, structural rules, and material availability, to ensure manufacturing feasibility and cost-effectiveness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional textile production systems are used, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but the ability to customize textile structural units for specific performance properties is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The textile component is divided into multiple textile structural units, each with specific properties (air permeability, thermal conductivity, moisture wicking) that can be independently selected and customized to meet different performance requirements in different zones of the footwear or garment.
Solution Approach 2:
Different textile structural units with different properties are assigned to different locations within the textile component. This allows each zone to have the specific performance characteristics needed for its function, such as higher air permeability in areas requiring breathability and higher thermal conductivity in areas requiring warmth.
2Reliability
If textile structural units are customized for specific performance properties, then product performance is improved, but design and production time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-defines multiple textile structural units with different properties (air permeability, thermal conductivity, moisture wicking) that can be readily selected and combined. This preliminary preparation of standardized structural units allows for rapid customization without requiring time-consuming design and development for each new product.
Solution Approach 2:
The same textile structural units can be used across different footwear and garment products, serving multiple functions and applications. This universality reduces the overall design time and allows the system to maintain high performance while reducing production time through reusable components.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple textile structural units with different properties are integrated, then functional versatility is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple textile structural units with different properties are merged into a single integrated textile component. The system combines air permeable units, thermally conductive units, and moisture-wicking units into one cohesive structure that can be manufactured as a single piece, reducing the need for separate assembly steps and simplifying the manufacturing process.
Solution Approach 2:
The textile component functions as a composite structure where different textile structural units (analogous to different materials) are combined to achieve multiple functional properties simultaneously. This composite approach allows the system to deliver high functional versatility while maintaining manufacturing efficiency through a unified production process.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for manufacturing a garment, include: (a) receiving garment design input data for a garment design including data representing a first textile structural unit at a first location in the garment design and data representing a second textile structural unit at a second location in the garment design; (b) generating a textile production machine instruction data set based on the garment design input data; (c) forming a first garment using a first textile production machine to include the first textile structural unit at a first location in the first garment and the second textile structural unit at a second location in the first garment; (d) creating revised garment design input data for the garment design based on the first garment created in the forming step; (e) generating revised textile production machine instruction data set based on the revised garment design input data; and (f) forming a second garment using a textile production machine and the revised garment design input data including the changes to the garment design.