On-Demand Design & Manufacturing of Customised 3D Fashion & Textile Products

英国的时装设计和技术是英国最重要的创意产业之一，每年为英国带来300亿英镑的收入。对英国经济的影响。不幸的是，它主要依赖于生产和消费的线性模型，以及全球分布的长供应链，这鼓励了过度生产，导致英国每年约有30万吨纺织垃圾填埋/焚烧。在全球范围内，时尚业排放的温室气体占所有温室气体排放量的10%，加上其他负面的环境和社会影响。向循环经济转型为英国生产商提供了机会，通过更大的再支撑空间和更短、更灵活的供应链，通过分布式、数字链接的智能制造运营来提高竞争力。这需要将数字驱动的设计、智能制造与自动化以及其他先进技术更好地整合在一起，这样英国才能成为可持续、定制的纺织品/时装设计和制造领域的全球领导者。为了促进这一过渡，LITAC希望将利用纺织废料生产功能纤维、更多以实践为基础的3D设计和制造能力与现有的高质量设施相结合，为创新和可持续的设计和制造运营提供一个新的研究平台。我们将与来自AHRC Future Fashion Factory CICP的纺织、时尚和色彩行业的2500个合作伙伴(英国微型企业、中小企业和PLC)合作开展这项工作。学院现有的设计和技术研究专业知识、最先进的设施和长期建立的行业合作伙伴关系的结合为成功创新和将新研究成果转化为产业战略和商业化提供了良好的基础。这样的合作、创新和翻译模式可以推广到其他所有领域。这应该会对英国创意和文化部门的经济和环境表现产生重大影响。从回收纺织材料和服装废料中定制高价值纺织品的3D设计和自动化制造是该行业以及在英国实际实施可行的循环经济的一个具有战略意义的发展领域。我们正在向Strand申请这一呼吁之一，以购买关键设备来实现这一目标，并实现以下能力：1.表征纺织废料化学成分的变化；2.将热塑性合成聚合物转化为功能纤维；3.基于个别主题进行数字设计定制3D时尚产品；4.为无缝时装产品及其他具有复杂三维形状和几何形状的高价值纺织产品(包括复合材料)进行电脑辅助三维编织。新设备采购包括：(1)更换过时的熔融纺丝纤维挤出系统；(2)为三维编织创新中心增加最先进的设备，包括多梭织机和经纱筒子架输送系统；(3)分光光度计，用于分析包括着色剂在内的回收聚合物材料成分；以及(4)3D人体扫描仪，可以根据受试者的服装进行数字化设计和定制，从而减少损耗，并允许进行全数字化的原型制作过程。

The UK fashion design and technology is one of the UK's most important creative industries, contributing >£30bn p.a. to the UK economy. Unfortunately, it mainly relies on a linear model of production and consumption, with long, globally distributed supply chains that encourage over-production, resulting in ca. 300,000 tonnes of textile landfill/incineration waste in the UK per year. Globally, the fashion industry is responsible for up to 10% of all GHG emissions, combined with other negative environmental and social impacts. Transition to circular economies provides opportunities for UK producers to increase their competitiveness with greater scope for re-shoring and shorter, more agile supply chains with distributed, digitally linked smart manufacturing operations. This requires greater integration of digitally driven design, smart manufacturing with automation, and other advanced technologies, so that the UK can become a global leader in sustainable, customised textile/fashion design and manufacturing. To facilitate the transition, LITAC wishes to integrate the production of functional fibres from textile wastes, additional practice-based 3D design and manufacturing capabilities with existing high-quality facilities to provide a new platform for research in innovative and sustainable design and manufacturing operations. This will be carried out collaboratively with our industry network of >2,500 partners (UK micros, SMEs and PLCs) across the textile, fashion and colour sectors, drawn from the AHRC Future Fashion Factory CICP.The combination of the Institute's existing design and technology research expertise, state-of-the-art facilities and long-established industry partnerships provides an excellent foundation for successful innovation and translation of the new research findings into industrial strategy and commercialisation. Such a model for collaborative cooperation, innovation and translation can be rolled out across all other fields. This should have a significant impact on both the economic, and environmental, performance of the UK's creative and cultural sector.3D design and automated manufacturing of customised high value textile products from recycled textile materials & garment waste is a strategically important area of development in the industry and for practical implementation of viable circular economies in the UK.We are applying to Strand One of this call to purchase key equipment to achieve this goal and to enable the following capabilities:1. Characterise changes in the chemical composition of textile waste materials;2. Convert thermoplastic synthetic polymers into functional fibres; 3. Digitally design customised 3D fashion products based on individual subjects;4. Undertake computer-aided 3D weaving of seamless fashion products and other high value textile products (including composites) with complex 3D shapes and geometries.The new equipment purchases cover: (1) replacement of an out-of-date meltspinning fibre extrusion system, (2) additional state-of-the-art equipment for the 3D Weaving Innovation Centre (WIC) including a multi-shuttle loom and warp creel delivery system; (3) a spectrophotometer, for the analysis of recycled polymer material compositions, including colourants; and (4) a 3D body scanner, to enable digitally design and customised fit to subject garments, that reduce wastage and allow for a fully-digital prototyping process.