Early stages of apparel design : how to define collaborative needs for PLM and fashion?

Frédéric Segonds (1) , Fabrice Mantelet (1) , Nicolas Maranzana (1) , Stéphane Gaillard (1)

1 LCPI - Laboratoire Conception de Produits et Innovation

Companies are faced with increasing challenges in their own environment. In several areas of the industry, but also among the suppliers, more and more competitors emerge. Companies react to this pressure by trying to implement new technologies for their products and offering more innovative products to successfully face direct competition. Overall, globalisation put pressure on companies in terms of innovation, costs and time to market. This climate of economic competition forces businesses to adapt to the expectations of their customers. To achieve this change, it becomes necessary amongst other things to reduce design time. Thus, practices in apparel design have evolved in order to be able to manage projects in new work environments. After presenting a literature review of collaborative functionalities used in product design, our paper presentsan illustration of a case study for Product Lifecycle Management research in the apparel industry, focusing on the definitionof needs in terms of collaborative functions to support the design of apparel products, in an industrial context.

Mots clés: CAD; apparel design; fashion; PLM

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Frédéric Segonds, Fabrice Mantelet, Nicolas Maranzana, Stéphane Gaillard. Early stages of apparel design : how to define collaborative needs for PLM and fashion?. International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, 2014, 7 (2), pp.105-114. ⟨10.1080/17543266.2014.893591⟩. ⟨hal-01091287v2⟩