IEEE/SICE SII 2025 Full-Day Workshop
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ON GARMENT PRODUCTION

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Room (TBD) Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Munich, Germany

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WORKSHOP CHAIR

Professor Norman C. TIEN

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ORGANISERS ​

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George Q. Huang

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• InnoHK Center for Transformative Garment Production

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Kazuhiro Kosuge            

• The University of Hong Kong

• InnoHK Centre for Transformative Garment Production

• JC STEM Lab of Robotics for Soft Materials

• IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Robotics Research for Practicality​​

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Hoi Pang Ng

• InnoHK Center for Transformative Garment Production

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SPONSORS​​​

• InnoHK Center for Transformative Garment Production

• JC STEM Lab of Robotics for Soft Materials

• IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Robotics Research for Practicality​​

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ABSTRACT​​

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Garment production is considered a special type of extreme manufacturing. Garment materials are highly flexible and soft, thus significantly affecting fashion styles and becoming very difficult to handle. Order sizes and volumes fluctuate drastically with short lead times. Variety, accessibility, scope and scale of garment manufacturing resources, their capabilities and capacities are massive, vary massively over time, and geographically dispersed. It is a grand challenge to discover, match and utilize such resource(s) to fulfil orders. The objective of this workshop is to collate some of the recent research and development efforts resulted from some major projects specifically related to garment and fashion design and manufacturing. This workshop is concerned with systems integration in the fields of garment, fashion and textile manufacturing in its broadest sense ranging from garment design, patterning, production, material handling, supply and logistics. Systems include hardware and software solutions / technologies, and decision support systems. Examples include robotics, AI (Artificial Intelligence) / LLM (Large Language Model), and simulation.​​​