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“The apparel industry has finally opened up to the possibility of a broader implementationof 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.”

Fabric sourcing has traditionally been an offline, tactile activity. But textile collaboration platform Frontier is looking to change this, especially now that the industry is finally embracing technology. “Covid changed the industry’s general mindset toward digitization, cloud and work processes from nice to have to must have,” said Wayne Fan, Frontier’s chief strategy officer

Providing easy access for brands to browse fabric libraries, trend rooms and interactively connect eith supply chain as remote working becomes the new normal

One of the biggest challenges facing brands, manufacturers, and just about everyone in the textile supply chain is digitization. The benefits of digitization seem clear, but the pathway to achieving those benefits is often complex and expensive. Software can be very costly to develop. Then there’s the expense of maintaining it – trouble shooting, continual upgrades to be compatible with changes in other technology – it involves ongoing costs. It’s not the one-time purchase many compani...

ファッション業界でもデザインやサプライチェーンなど生産工程のデジタル化が急激に進んでいるが、テキスタイルや素材メーカーは依然としてサンプルの実物を取引先に送る必要があった。輸送費用がかさむだけではなく、二酸化炭素排出量の増加などサステイナビリティーの観点からも望ましくないが、ファブリックのサプライチェーン・プラットフォームを提供する米フロンティア（FRONTIER）の“オンラインデータベース”によってそうした問題が解決できるという...

Frontier take the raw output from the material scanner and conduct noise reduction, tagging, clustering and taxonomy labelling in the cloud – all the steps that then enable brand and retail buyers to discover new suppliers and pull down their materials in a universal, usable format

Frontier, a co-working software as a service (SaaS) designed to digitizefabric materials, enhance supply chain management and boost3D designcapabilities, has seen substantial growth among textilemillsand brand partners since its launch in April 2019

Collaborative cloud-based platform allows mills and brands to efficiently communicate and develop products while working remotely

Frontier, an online platform designed to digitize the fabric supply chain from creative fabric development, to the inspection process, to 3D garment design

Fabric designers and developers at a brand or retailer can use the platform to image search, find similar items via AI or search by description, blend, colour, end use, pantone colour number, pattern or weight