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

英国时装设计和技术是英国最重要的创意产业之一，每年贡献超过300亿英镑。英国经济。不幸的是，它主要依赖于生产和消费的线性模型，长期的全球分布的供应链鼓励过度生产，从而导致成本上升。英国每年有30万吨纺织垃圾填埋/焚烧废物。在全球范围内，时装业的温室气体排放量占所有温室气体排放量的10%，并带来其他负面的环境和社会影响。向循环经济的过渡为英国生产商提供了机会，通过更大的再支撑范围和更短，更灵活的供应链以及分布式，数字化连接的智能制造业务来提高竞争力。这需要数字驱动设计、智能制造与自动化以及其他先进技术的更大整合，以便英国能够成为可持续、定制纺织品/时装设计和制造的全球领导者。为了促进这一转变，LITAC希望将利用纺织废料生产功能性纤维、额外的基于实践的3D设计和制造能力与现有的高质量设施相结合，为创新和可持续设计和制造业务的研究提供新的平台。这将与我们超过2，500个合作伙伴的行业网络合作进行（英国微型企业，中小企业和PLC）在纺织，时装和色彩部门，从AHRC未来时装工厂CICP绘制。该研究所现有的设计和技术研究专业知识的结合，最先进的设施和长期-已建立的工业伙伴关系为成功创新和将新的研究成果转化为工业战略和商品化提供了良好的基础。这种合作、创新和翻译的模式可以在所有其他领域推广。这将对经济和环境产生重大影响，英国创意和文化部门的表现。3D设计和自动化制造定制的高价值纺织品，从回收的纺织材料和服装废物是该行业发展的一个重要战略领域，也是英国切实实施可行的循环经济的一个重要领域。我们正在向Strand One申请购买关键设备，以实现这一目标，并使以下能力：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.根据个人主题数字化设计定制的3D时尚产品;4.承接无缝时装产品和其他高价值纺织产品的计算机辅助3D编织新设备采购包括：（1）更换过时的熔纺纤维挤出系统，（2）为3D织造创新中心（WIC）添置最先进的设备，包括多梭织机和经纱架输送系统;（3）为3D织造创新中心（WIC）添置最先进的设备，包括多梭织机和经纱架输送系统。（3）分光光度计，用于分析回收的聚合物材料成分，包括着色剂;以及（4）3D身体扫描仪，用于实现数字化设计和定制服装，减少浪费并允许全数字化原型制作过程。

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.