디지털 패션 공정기술의 효과성에 대한 사례연구

Abstract

In response to 4th industrial revolution, digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and virtual reality are converging with technologies from various fields to accomplish rapid economic development in all industrial fields and suggest new paradigm of social change. In manufacturing-based fashion industry, digital technology is rapidly developed in each stage from product planning to design, sample making, order production, tailoring, sewing, and distribution. 3D virtual clothe engine solution, CLO, show unique and excellent performances in the world and it innovatively reduces the inconvenient processes and expense of making actual sample. Also, virtual dressing program enables communication between designers and buyers regardless of time and place and it is largely contributing on competiveness of fashion companies. In response, this study seeks to suggest status of existing clothes manufacturing process, need for development of digital fashion technology, and future development plans by examining the present and future of digital manufacturing process. This study applied national research and development project’s result performed between 2016 to 2019 on Company A’s system and conducted comparative analysis on working time of general manufacturing method and digital manufacturing method. After applying the system, the system showed following improvements in work efficiency

① In graphic and pattern work, the digital system allowed easier and faster correction compared to existing works. ② By replacing initial sample to virtual sample, the lead time was greatly reduced. ③ In case of complicated style, the number of sample work reduced from 3 times to once. This decreased sample work time by 560 minutes and reduced sample expense. ④ In analysis of lead time, existing system required 1,814 minutes for outer work. In utilizing the platform, the lead time reduced by 50% from the total lead time. ⑤ In total lead time for each item, the lead time reduced by 69% for t-shirts, 68% for dress, 71% for pants, and 66% for outer. ⑥ Including the waiting time (tailoring and sewing time, e-mail work, logistics time, etc.) involved in general manufacturing process steps, this shows that the digital system reduced considerable amount of time and expense.

For development of fashion industry in the future, it is necessary for manufacturing field to establish platform and it requires quick support and response from government and local government.