Digital transformation in manufacturing and process industry
Sustainability and circular economy
Research and Development under Contract
IT Engineering - Process, Data, Maturity, and Quality
Computer Vision, Interaction and Graphics
Human-Technology Interaction, and Robotics
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and decision support systems
Ontologies and interoperability
Computer vision and image processing
Human Factors, usability, and UX design
Framework
The STVgoDIGITAL is a structuring project of the Textile Cluster: Technology and Fashion, which aims to encompass a set of R&D initiatives, which enhance the adoption and transition to the new paradigm of Industry 4.0 and the digital transition, with emphasis on technology information and communication.
The project is clearly aligned with one of the strategic pillars of the Textile Cluster: Technology and Fashion – Industry 4.0 and Digitalization, and seeks to advance the knowledge and maturity of digital solutions that address the challenges and opportunities of the sector.
Proposed Solutions
Develop digital solutions for a set of STV-relevant challenges and opportunities. A mix of implementing digital technologies, new procedures, business models, new approaches and new materials.
Each of the PPS (Products, Processes, Services) responds to a specific sector challenge, including sustainability, circularity, fashion ecosystem, worker well-being, supply chain and introduction of artificial intelligence technologies:
PPS1: SUSTAINABLE AND CIRCULAR TEXTILE ID 4.0
Creation of a digital textile product passport, providing a label for clothing and home textiles. This label, which may be imperceptible to the human eye, presents all the information about the sustainability and circularity of the product: who, where, how, with what and under what conditions it was manufactured, allowing its categorization.
PPS2: SUPPLY CHAIN 4.0
Digital integration of information systems, belonging to different organizations and which present heterogeneous information. An innovative, message-based communication system, facilitating the exchange of information between the different elements of the textile supply chain, with the aim of streamlining communication between the different companies involved in the production of a textile article, in order to integrate the different supply chain processes. Interior development of the future.
PPS3: FASHION ECOSYSTEM 4.0
Approach the concept of fast fashion, its massive production, and its environmental and social ethics, and seek alternatives to open the fashion market to other actors, whether creative or small producers, in a local and more sustainable logic.
PPS4: WORKER 4.0
Development of an exoskeleton, a body assistance device, to aid the movements of STV workers, particularly seamstresses, in order to increase their comfort and safety at the workplace. The exoskeleton uses disciplines such as data science, artificial intelligence and robotization.
PPS5: AI FOR ITV
Creation of an innovative and disruptive solution, in order to promote and accelerate the full adoption of Artificial Intelligence in companies in the textile and clothing industry. With the optimization and automation of quality analysis on the horizon, an analysis platform adaptable to different contexts was developed, as well as image processing and machine learning algorithms and techniques and edge and cloud computing services.