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Mark Harrop

Mark Harrop

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Founder of WhichPLM and The Interline, Mark has worked for more than four decades to help the world’s best known retailers, brands and manufacturers achieve efficiency savings across their entire supply chain through informed technology investments.
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MMaterial Innovation

Video Interview: Is Digital Dyeing Ready For Prime-Time?

  • byMark Harrop
  • April 14, 2021
  • 620 views
Replacing traditional dyeing methods with new digital solutions has the potential to transform an overlooked area of production. But how far can digital dyeing go, and what does a future ecosystem built around it look like?
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  • 13 minute read
DDigital Design & Development

Interline Identities: Ian Ravenshaw Bland, CEO, SO REAL

  • byMark Harrop
  • February 1, 2021
  • 667 views
We talk to SO REAL about how cross-industry innovation promises to help automate the creation of digital twins for fashion - at scale, and at speed.
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  • 11 minute read
PPlanning For The Future

Redesigning The Value Chain: Why Smart Forecasting Is Only Part Of Fashion’s Future

  • byMark Harrop
  • January 12, 2021
  • 655 views
As fashion enters a new era of constant uncertainty, smart forecasting and demand planning is a step in the right direction. But it needs to lead to a new model of production, too.
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  • 6 minute read
FFactories Of The Future - Industrial

The Technology-Led Demand Chain: How To Turn The Page To Fashion’s Next Chapter

  • byMark Harrop
  • July 27, 2020
  • 1.3K views
The traditional supply chain is overdue for an overhaul, but how should you approach switching to a demand-chain?
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  • 8 minute read
FFactories Of The Future - Industrial

From Push To Pull: How Technology Promises To Reverse The Flow Of Production

  • byMark Harrop
  • June 25, 2020
  • 979 views
The long-standing "push" model of apparel production could soon be replaced, at least in part, by an all-digital data-driven "pull". Here's how that could happen.
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  • 7 minute read
FFactories Of The Future - Industrial

Data & Demand: Fuelling The Factory Of The Future

  • byMark Harrop
  • June 16, 2020
  • 1.2K views
Fashion is facing change on a grander scale than anything in living memory. Now is its chance to move from the traditional supply model to a true demand chain.
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  • 6 minute read
33D - Aesthetic

Going 3D, Part 5: Making It Real

  • byMark Harrop
  • June 4, 2020
  • 1.8K views
The end of our examination of all things 3D, this summary sets out some practical steps you can take to realise your 3D ambitions.
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33D - Aesthetic

Going 3D, Part 4: Avatars & Virtual Twins

  • byMark Harrop
  • May 21, 2020
  • 1.6K views
3D body scanning and body data platforms create the opportunity to use virtual twins of people as well as products.
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  • 7 minute read
33D - Technical

Going 3D, Part 3: How Fashion Fits

  • byMark Harrop
  • May 12, 2020
  • 2.1K views
We examine the history of sizing surveys, and look forward to a future where fit can be personalised through technology.
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33D - Technical

Going 3D, Part 2: Draping Fabric Digitally

  • byMark Harrop
  • April 23, 2020
  • 2.8K views
As fashion rushes headlong to embrace 3D, it is vital that virtual materials can be judged based on their look, "feel", and performance.

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