AI

ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE
APPLICATION OF AI
A U TO M AT I O N I N G A R M E N T
M A N U FA C T U R I N G
 Introduction
• Apparel Production is labor intensive and now heading toward automation
because of several advantages.
• The automation can perform small tasks such as bobbin change to the use of
sewing robots to produce the entire garment with improved quality, reduced cost,
and reduced lead time compared with human work.
• The automation has not gained much success in garment manufacturing because of
the flexibility of fabrics.
• Due to its labour intensive nature, apparel industry can seek great benefits out of
the AI intervention in their businesses.

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 The Clothing Production Process FR

CONCEPTUALIZATION DESING DEVELOPMENT

GARMENT
CONSUMERS MANUFACTURING

FASHION RETAIING

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 GARMENT MANUFACTURING FR
PROCESS

FABRIC SPREADING CUTTING BUNDLING

INSPECTION PRESSING SEWING

PACKAGEING

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 Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Garment
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Industry:

• Prediction of mechanical properties

• Classification and grading
• Identification and analysis of faults
• Process control and online monitoring
• SCM and retailing.

AI can be used in various processes of textile production such as fiber grading, prediction of yarn properties, fabric fault
analysis, and dye recipe prediction. Similarly, AI can be applied in all the stages (preproduction, production, and
postproduction) of garment manufacturing. Garment manufacturing involves processes such as conceptualization, design
development, PPC, spreading, cutting, bundling, sewing, pressing, and packaging.

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Application of artificial intelligence in fiber and yarn production:

• As there are many different types of textile fibers, it is

often difficult to identify an unknown fiber by visual
inspection.
• The traditional practices of fiber identification are
based on destructive tests using flame or chemicals
• AI can be used to identify and grade textile fibers
according to their color and other properties such as
fineness, length, uniformity ratio, tenacity, and effect of
spinning performance on yarn properties.
• Applications of AI in yarn manufacturing that includes
virtual modeling of yarn from fiber properties,
prediction of yarn tensile properties, prediction of yarn
unevenness, and yarn engineering .

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Application of artificial intelligence in fabric production
• The quality of the fabric influences the quality of the
garment, productivity, and the ease with which
garments can be manufactured.
• AI can be used to predict the fabric properties before
manufacturing with the help of neuro-fuzzy or other
approaches by using the fiber, yarn, and fabric
constructional data.
• One of the applications of AI for color solution is
during the fiber blending stage, while the roving is
converted to yarn. The use of AI can assist in
predicting the color produced when fibers of different
colors are mixed together.
• AI can be applied for fault inspection and grading of
the fabrics that are received in a garment industry. The
image of the faults are stored in the system and
compared with the captured image If a difference is
observed, the defect is identified and the inspector
calculates the fault points. .

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Application of artificial intelligence in apparel manufacturing:

• The garment manufacturing process is becoming more

automated to cater the increasing demand of consumers,
reduce the number of faults, and keep the production cost low.
• A good quality seam is essential for a good quality garment.
The performance properties of the seam are evaluated by seam
puckering, seam slippage, and yarn severance, which can be
predicted by AI.
• Several researches have been done to implement the AI that
can help to develop basic clothing patterns automatically. For
example, Inui had developed an AI integrated CAD system
(combination apparel CAD and GA) that can be used to search
apparel designs that the system users prefer. .
• AI based decision support system was used in decision making
to determine the most appropriate manufacturing plant for a
particular customer order. A GA-based real-time segmentation
for rescheduling was developed by Wong to deal with the
PPC-related problems in sewing floor during: (1) marker
making, (2) fabric spreading, (3) cutting, and (4) bundling.
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Application of AI in Inspection

• The inspection of finished and semi-finished garments during

their production is essential to get fewer rejections.
• The results of the inspection are influenced by the physical and
mental condition of the inspector.
• AI can be used to identify and grade textile fibers according to
their color and other properties such as fineness, length,
uniformity ratio, tenacity, and effect of spinning performance
on yarn properties.
• The application of AI in final garment inspection includes:
automatic classification of general faults in shirt collars (for
mono colored materials) using machine vision; application of
AATCC (American Association of Textile Chemists and
Colorists) wrinkle rating for evaluation of wrinkle by using a
laser sensor; detection and classification of stitching defects
using wavelet transform and BP NN; seam pucker evaluation
by using self-organizing mapping; and designing of a smart
hanger for garment inspection. In manufacturing the seamless
garments, .

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Cons of Artificial
Intelligence
• One of the major drawbacks of AI is that it reduces
human employment which indirectly hampers the
growth.
• The cost of AI is sometimes so high that it is beyond
practical usage.
• Maintenance cost is also extremely high.

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 Thank You.
AI
ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE
Dhruv Sahney
Ashish Bhuwania
Taruna Sharma
angelica@fabrikamresidences.com
Abhishek Kumar