Abstract
The garment manufacturing industry is a labor-intensive industry, with one of the slowest transitions to automation. Hence, it is essential to build a smart factory based on automated systems to improve productivity and allow responsive production in the market. In this study, the manufacturing processes for a smart sports bra were established and optimized using various automated machines. For this system, computer-based 3D virtual design software, a technical embroidery machine, an automatic cutting machine, an industrial robot arm with gripper, and an industrial pattern sewing machine were used. The design and materials of the sports bra were selected considering embroidery, cutting, robot gripping, and sewing processes. In addition, conductive thread and light-emitting diode (LED) sequences were used to implement smart functions to the sports bra. Transport of intermediate materials, work orders, and process conditions were optimized to improve the flexible connection of each process and the quality of the final product. This study suggests the concept of the automated manufacturing system that minimizes human intervention by connecting the processes needed to produce a smart sports bra using various automation equipment and programs already used in the industry.
Highlights
With the fourth industrial revolution and manufacturing innovations that started in Germany, the fashion industry is changing
Factory automation refers to a system that automates the entire unmanned factory and manufacturing process using automatic equipment, such as computers and robots
Smart factory and automation systems can enable the development of a fashion system based on the product quantities that are better balanced with market demand, more consistent with the customers’ needs, highly customized, and transparent for their entire lifecycle [2]
Summary
With the fourth industrial revolution and manufacturing innovations that started in Germany, the fashion industry is changing. Focusing on the 4.0 smart factory, the garment manufacturing industry needs to be costs. Smart clothing was selected as clothing, and the design is simple For these reasons, smart clothing was selected as the target item for establishing an automated process for manufacturing garments. For the target item for establishing an automated process for manufacturing garments For this this purpose, the 2D–3D computer aided design (CAD) system, technical embroidery purpose, the 2D–3D computer aided design (CAD) system, technical embroidery technoltechnology, robot-based gripping system, and automatic sewing system were used to conogy, robot-based gripping system, and automatic sewing system were used to connect the nect the process and analyze the correlation between textile and process conditions at each process and analyze the correlation between textile and process conditions at each stage.
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