【Press Release】Frontier Bridges Gap Between Brands’ 3D Design Process And Supplier Assets
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Frontier Bridges Gap Between Brands’ 3D Design Process and Supplier Assets
New feature allows brands to grab digital material from suppliers in real time for digital product development
September 1, 2021; Taipei, Taiwan – Frontier, a collaboration software
as a service (SaaS) designed to digitize fabric materials, enhance supply chain
management, and boost 3D design capabilities, has introduced a new 3D Fabric
Creator on its platform that uses AI technology to convert 2D scanned textile
images into 3D design compatible assets.
The 3D
Fabric Creator generates essential texture maps needed for use in virtual
prototyping, much like a topographical relief map, so 3D designers can import
material files directly into any 3D design environment.
“Material scanning must be able to
re-construct textural metadata such as normal, roughness, displacement and
physical values so these datapoints can be used across different design
platforms,” said Moritz Sontheimer, Frontier AI specialist. “We have the luxury
to build models from a very large and quality consistent data base, which
allows us to continuously improve our accuracy.”
According
to Frontier, there is an insatiable demand for Digital Product
Creation (DCP) as more brands go-to-market with increasing speed. Not only does
3D Fabric Creator generate essential datapoints of a fabric, it allows
users to share material data for use across different design systems. As a
result, brand designers no longer need to chase suppliers
for digital materials or acquire digital materials through a 3rd party platform. In other words, the materials you get from your suppliers is
the material that can be produced in bulk production.
Frontier’s
main objective is to work with the supply chain to help make digital 3D design
as friendly as possible so that more brands can gain access to their digital
materials. Frontier’s objective is to bridge the technology gap between brands
and supply chain using AI/ML (artificial intelligence/ machine learning) to enhance all material relevant
data from specs, text description, pattern description, fabric construction and
material science through cloud applications. Frontier users a
user content generation model, therefore users have full control over product IP
and access. It also uses a pay as you go model so there is no upfront
investment.
“The apparel industry has finally
opened up to the possibility of a broader implementation
of 3D tech in the supply chain,” said Alexa Dehmel, owner of Innovative Design
& Development Consulting. “Frontier’s 3D Fabric Creator is a great
technology in bridging the gap between a brand’s design process and their suppliers digital assets.”
Frontier’s whitepaper jointly published with the Interline on using AI to scale material digitization is available now and can be demonstrated on the Frontier platform by visiting https://pse.is/3md35g.
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About Frontier
Frontier is a new kind of digital textile collaboration solution that leverages machine learning to build the world’s most powerful textile and fabric image exchange for the apparel and fashion industries. our solution can be integrated into existing PLM, ERP, and 3D design software. For more information and to set up a demo, please visit www.frontier.cool.