Post-Pandemic Production: The Chance For Real Change
COVID's silver lining: historic disruption has created the opportunity for historic change. Is it finally time for fashion to rediscover the promise of the communal microfactory?
Bringing The Future Of Production Forward
In light of constant supply chain scandals and the need to control cost, quality, and speed in an uncertain world, the factory of the future isn’t just a possibility for tomorrow – it’s a necessity today.
Labour : The Missing Piece Of The Post-COVID Production Puzzle
As the world weighs up a move from high-volume, low-quality production to a new model, the need for accurate Bill of Labour data is greater than ever. And the tools we use to collect it must change.
Automating The Impossible… From Your Kitchen Table
ShapeShifter set out some guidelines for reducing fabric and operational waste in the apparel supply chain.
Integrated Data Intelligence: The Key to Transforming Your Supply Chain
As retail channels reopen, the pressure is on brands to control the speed, delivery, and quality of their next collections. But traditional supply chain tools are not up to the task. Data integration and Applied AI offer a solution.
The New Reality: Redesigning Production, Increasing Value, and Improving Profits
Fashion faces fresh and pre-existing challenges that require a new approach to production. How? The answer is already being put into practice. And the value is clear.
How Digital Fabric Printing Is Changing Supply Chain Dynamics In The Post-COVID World
Apparel production has a reputation for being slow and environmentally unsound. Digital printing and production colour management could offer a different way.
From Push To Pull: How Technology Promises To Reverse The Flow Of Production
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.
Why Factories Need Data to Win
Even before coronavirus, disruption was coming to every sector of production. This briefing sets out how factories and the brands that partner with them can prepare for the future.
How technology can help brands control manufacturing and production
Global production supply chains for fashion are trapped in the dark ages. Technology can be a beacon for the future.
Does Your Supply Chain Meet The New Fashion Market Trends?
Preparing to face the challenges of the future, for fashion, now means examining and restructuring your supply chain. Kornit set out five key things to understand.
Data & Demand: Fuelling The Factory Of The Future
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.
Sampling: Is All-Digital A Step Too Far?
3D can eliminate many samples, but delays still occur when the time comes to make a physical sample. Digital thread dyeing offers a solution.
Fashion Is Overdue For A New Model Of Production
With our 3D focus over, we look at why an analogue gap exists between the output of design and the output of manufacturing. And we introduce our two-month deep-dive on how that gap can be bridged.