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Abstract
A system, method and computer application for determining a required production capacity for manufacturing an item of apparel, comprising: a clothing product configuration engine (215) with a visual interactive user interface (200), a standard minute value calculator (260). An apparel item configuration engine (215) having a visual interactive user interface (200) is configured to: based on the received selection commands for the selected material, the selected base product, and possibly the selected additional features, a configured product is formed. The standard minute value calculator (260) is configured to determine a standard minute value of the configured product based on a preset standard minute value of the selected base product, a preset standard minute influence value of the selected add-on style feature, and a complex material stitch level SMV influence rate of the determined complex material stitch level. An estimate of the production capacity required to manufacture the configured apparel product based on the determined standard minute value.
Description
Technical Field
The present disclosure relates generally to capacity management systems and methods for supporting sustainable production of garments. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a system for estimating the production cost of a garment.
Background
Today's garment trade is to a large extent a global industry involving fashion development, garment design, production, transportation and distribution to consumers, and business operations are spread over several different countries. With the current trend of increasing social and environmental awareness, clothing companies have increased their efforts to improve the sustainability of all parts of their value chain operations.
For a social aspect of sustainable work, there is a need to ensure that workers in the manufacturing country get the relevant salaries. Decisions affecting the possibility of achieving garment production that balances market prices for consumers with manufacturing costs that make relevant salaries possible are made at several stages of the value chain and form part of the corporate capacity management process.
The overall complexity of the apparel industry requires technical solutions to support capacity management. As noted, capacity management involves different company functional departments and staff members contributing to the overall capacity planning. To improve sustainability, it is desirable to enable the company staff to understand the capabilities, resources and costs required to produce a garment product.
An important component of capacity management is to enable company personnel (e.g., those near the production office) to calculate the production cost of a garment for a proposed design as a basis for estimating capacity requirements. The basis for the established production cost calculation is a standard minute value measurement. The standard minute value SMV is defined as the time required for a qualified worker working with standard performance to perform a given task (source: www.qsdhq.com/defining-standard-time).
Prior Art
U.S. patent application No.2005/0055255 shows an example of a method and system for estimating garment production time, which, like standard minute value SMV, also depends on measurements of operator action time and operator sewing time. In a computer system, different parts of an article of clothing or garment are selected and a total production time is calculated by summing the production times of the various selected parts.
There is a need for a technical tool that gives relevant and accurate output on capacity management and is easy to use for company employees in different parts of the apparel industry value chain.
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It is a general object of embodiments herein to provide a technical support system for determining the production capacity required for manufacturing an item of clothing. Aspects of the embodiments have more specific goals of accelerating capacity management processes, increasing internal efficiency, and supporting improved sustainability.
Disclosure of Invention
The object of the present disclosure is solved by embodiments of a system, a method and a computer application comprising a terminal, a computer processor and computer program code portions, the computer application comprising computer program code portions configured to direct the computer processor to determine a production capacity required for manufacturing a garment product, comprising and configured to:
i. presenting a set of selectable base products on a terminal screen and receiving a base product selection command;
presenting the set of selectable additional style features on the terminal screen and receiving an additional style feature selection command to add the selected style feature to the base product;
presenting a set of selectable materials on a terminal screen and receiving material selection commands for a base product and/or for additional style features;
forming a configured product based on the received selection commands for the selected material, the selected base product and possibly the selected additional features, and storing the configured product in a memory;
v. presenting a visual representation of the configured product on a terminal screen;
determining a complex material tailoring level for the configured product based on the materials selected for the base product and possible additional style features of the configured product;
determining a standard minute value of the configured product based on the preset standard minute value of the selected base product, the preset standard minute influence value of the selected additional style feature, and the SMV influence rate of the determined complex material sewing level of the complex material sewing level, and storing the standard minute value in a memory;
generating an estimate of the production capacity required to manufacture the configured item of apparel based on the determined standard minute value, storing the estimate in memory, and presenting the estimate on a terminal screen.
Embodiments include the following options:
-presenting the selectable clothing items and the selectable additional style features as icon images on the visual interactive user interface on the terminal screen;
-implementing and presenting the icon image on the terminal screen as a clickable icon image forming the selection command input field.
-implementing and presenting on the terminal screen a selection command field as:
-a clickable icon image configured to be dragged and dropped onto an apparel product presentation field on the visual interface to indicate a selection and to input a selection command;
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-tapping a sensitive icon image, the sensitive icon image configured to be tapped to indicate a selection and to input a selection command.
-associating each selectable garment base product with a preset garment base product SMV;
-associating each selectable add-on style feature with a preset add-on style product SMV impact value;
-associating each selectable material with a predetermined complex material sewing level impact rate;
and stores each association as a parameter in memory.
-calculating the standard minute value of the configured product as the sum of the base of apparel product SMV associated with the configured product and the add-on style product SMV impact value of the one or more selected add-on features multiplied by the complex material sewing level impact rate of the selected material and storing it in the memory.
An embodiment of a system and a computer application for determining the required production capacity for manufacturing a clothing product and enabling the selection of the above-mentioned method steps comprises computer program code portions for implementing and/or executing:
-an apparel product configuration engine with a visual interactive user interface;
-a standard minute value calculator;
-a result presentation generator configured to present an estimate of the production capacity required to manufacture the configured item of apparel based on the determined standard minute value.
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FIG. 1 illustrates an overview of an embodiment of a sustainability support system;
FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a computer application for determining a required production capacity for manufacturing an item of apparel; and is
FIG. 3 illustrates a flow chart of an embodiment of method steps and functional operations for determining a desired production capacity for manufacturing an article of apparel based on the determined standard minute value.
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FIG. 1 illustrates an overview of an embodiment of a computer-based sustainability support system 100 having a plurality of subsystems connected by a data communications network 160. The sustainability support system 100 includes a capacity management system 110, a Standard Minute Value (SMV) estimation application 120, a production parameter database 130, a logistics system 140, and a design and manufacturing system 150, all of which can be communicatively coupled via a data communications network 160. In various embodiments, the data communication network 160 is, for example, a virtual private network that communicates over the internet.
Production parameter database 130 is configured to hold production-supported parameter data. For example, production parameter data may include data for apparel product designs, materials, and the like. The logistics system 140 supports logistics management, such as for workflows, materials, apparel products, and human resources. The design and manufacturing system 150 may include components such as a CAD system (computer aided design system) or a CAM system (computer aided manufacturing system). The different component systems are configured to exchange data and coordinate processes to support overall sustainability efforts in terms of operations in the garment value chain.
The SMV estimation application 120 may be included in the capacity management system 110 or may be a separate component communicatively coupled to the data communication network 160 (as shown in dashed lines in fig. 1). The SMV estimation application 120 is a software application executing on a computer processor that automatically calculates a standard minute worth SMV as an estimate of production cost. In embodiments, the software application is configured to interact with other software systems for sustainability work in the sustainability support system and support, for example, currently important aspects such as ensuring that workers of the manufacturing country receive relevant salaries.
The method for capacity management of the embodiments described herein includes a capacity measurement function based on a standard minute value estimate. As mentioned in the background section, the Standard Minute Value (SMV) estimation application (SEA) is the time required to perform a given task with qualified workers working "standard performance". SMV includes additional reserves for resting relaxation, machine delays and anticipated accidents. In the prior art, the SMV is calculated by qualified industrial engineers, and therefore the serviceman relies on it to evaluate the SMV of the product to achieve the CMT (cut, sew and ironing) calculation and to evaluate the capability required by the supplier to order and place orders therefrom. In clothing companies around the world, thousands of products are developed and released to each market every quarter, so it is difficult for industrial engineers to provide SMV quickly all the time to meet the speed requirements of such businesses.
Embodiments disclosed herein address these issues and enable employees in different parts of the garment trade value chain to make standard minute calculations in order to speed up the capacity management process, increase internal efficiency and support improved sustainability.
Fig. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a system and computer application for determining the required production capacity for manufacturing a clothing product in the form of an SMV estimation application 210, the SMV estimation application 210 having a visual interactive user interface 200 presented on a terminal screen available to a user.
An embodiment of a system includes a terminal having a terminal screen, one or more computer processors, and computer program code portions configured to direct the one or more computer processors to implement or perform the functions and steps described herein. Similarly, embodiments of the computer application program include computer program code portions configured to direct one or more computer processors to implement or perform the functions and steps described herein.
In different embodiments, the computer program code portions implementing the SMV estimation application 201 may be executed, for example, on the terminal, on a different computer unit connected to the terminal and presented on the terminal screen, or partly on a different computer connected to the terminal and partly on the terminal and presented on the terminal screen.
The terminal may be a Personal Computer (PC), tablet, mobile phone or other computing device.
Embodiments of the system and computer applications include implementing or executing a clothing product configuration engine 215, a standard minute value calculator 260, and a result presentation generator 272. The SMV estimation application 210 further includes a production parameter database 270 or is communicatively coupled to the production parameter database 270.
Typical users of applications will be, for example, business personnel, product developers, capacity guarantee managers, and others. These users typically have access to functionality of applications in which the user can modify and alter the product to automatically calculate the standard minute value. An administrative user (typically an industrial engineer) will have the right to manage product items, such as adding, editing or disabling product classifications, apparel base product and style feature types, materials and associated information.
In the embodiments described herein, the production parameter database 270 is configured to store a selection of:
a collection of clothing base products, for example represented by names and image icons. The set of apparel base products may be represented, for example, with primary product classification groups, each primary product classification group including a subgroup with selectable apparel base products. Examples of major product groups are woven, knitted, accessories and underwear/pajamas, while examples of garment base products are men's half-sleeved shirts, men's casual full-sleeved shirts, women's standing-collar shirts.
A set of additional style features, for example represented by a selection of names, functions and image icons. Examples of additional style features are different collar types, different sleeve types and different seam details.
-a standard minute value SMV associated with each of the stored clothing base products. This is also referred to as the default SMV value for the garment base product. For example, the SMV of a garment base product in the form of a men's half-sleeve shirt may be 15.40.
-an SMV impact value associated with each of the stored additional style features. For example, an additional style feature in the form of a single V-shaped pocket may have an SMV impact value of 1.30, while a Chinese style collar instead of the base collar may have an SMV impact value of-1, 55.
-a collection of materials. Examples of materials or material classifications are materials without spandex, materials with less than 5% spandex, and materials with greater than 5% spandex.
And/or
-a set of complex material sewing levels depending on the material selected for the clothing base product and/or for the additional style features. Examples of complex material stitch levels are level 1 for materials without spandex, level 2 for materials with less than 5% spandex, and level 3 for materials with greater than 5% spandex. Each complex material sewing grade has a preset complex material SMV influence value or SMV influence rate. For example, the SMV impact rate for a complex material sewing level 2 may be 1.1.
-a combined tolerance indication code associated with each selectable base product and/or each selectable add-on style feature and/or selectable material. When a user configures an article of apparel by adding, replacing, or removing features, a combination permissibility indication code is provided to enable control of the combination of permissives.
The combined permissibility indicator may, for example, include a data set that is based on a particular data model having one or more parameters that characterize or specify which operations may be performed on the base product, the style feature, the additional style features, and/or the alternative materials. The data set is a solution technically enabling configuring, visualizing and editing a piece of clothing on a visual interactive user interface 200 according to a set of rules imposed in dependence of parameters in the data set.
For example, the base product may be a shirt with certain base product style characteristics (such as short sleeves). For example, this would be characterized by a data set comprising the following choices:
shirt as basic product
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An additional style feature may be, for example, a beveled trim strip for the sleeve. For example, this would be characterized by a data set comprising the following selections:
style characteristics-oblique trim strips:
front, left and right sides
Associated with the following images-image l (left front), image 2 (left front)
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For example, the database may store information about key products or groups of key products (such as woven, knitted, accessory, intimate apparel products) of the company, as well as the selection of base products and the selection of additional style features for each product group. The computer application enables a user to configure an apparel product by adding, replacing, or removing style features to a selected apparel base product and automatically calculates an SMV estimate for the configured apparel product.
Apparel product configuration engine 215 shown in fig. 2 has an interactive visual interface that includes selectable base product field 220, selectable additional style features field 230, selectable materials field 240, configured product generator 250, configured apparel product presentation field 250, modified product SMV presentation field 272, base product SMV presentation field 274, and style features field 280.
Configured apparel product presentation field 250 includes a front presentation field 252 and a back presentation field 254. In an embodiment, configured apparel product presentation field 250 is implemented as a configuration workstation in which a selected base product is presented on its front or back side in respective dedicated fields 252 and 254. In fig. 2, the front 256 and back 258 of the garment are illustrated by a short-sleeved shirt.
The selectable apparel products, selectable additional style features, selectable materials, and possibly other selections may be presented on a visual user interface and/or in a text-based menu system, for example, as icon images. In an embodiment, these icon images may be implemented as clickable icon images forming the selection command input field. In an embodiment, for example for a web application, the selection command field is implemented as a clickable icon image configured to be dragged and dropped onto the apparel item presentation field on the visual interface to indicate the selection and to enter the selection command. In other embodiments, for example for mobile device applications, they are implemented by a tap function.
Embodiments disclosed herein include computer program code portions configured to direct a processor to execute a set of actions associated with each command input via an interface according to a predetermined rule and depending on a set of data associated with a base product, a base product style feature, an additional style feature, and other parameters.
The style feature fields 280 include an added style feature field 282 for presenting style features that have been added to the selected garment base product, a removed style feature presentation field 284 for presenting style features that have been removed from the selected garment base product, and a replaced style feature field 286 for presenting style features that have been replaced in the selected garment base product.
Fig. 3 illustrates a flow diagram of an embodiment of method steps and functional operations implemented in connection with an embodiment of the SMV estimation application 210 illustrated in fig. 2.
An embodiment of the apparel product configuration engine 215 has a visual interactive user interface 200, the visual interactive user interface 200 being implemented by computer program code portions executing on a processor and configured to:
the set of alternative apparel items stored and retrieved from production parameters database 270 is presented 310 on the optional apparel base item field 220 on the terminal screen. In an embodiment, this step may be preceded by the step of presenting and selecting product groups on the terminal screen, each product group containing a collection of selectable clothing base products. In these embodiments, selectable product group field 212 is provided on a visual interactive user interface.
In the processor, a base product selection command is received 320 from a user activating one or more command input fields provided for selecting a presented selectable clothing base product.
330 presents the set of selectable add-on style features stored and retrieved from the production parameters database 270 on the terminal screen over the selectable add-on style features field 230.
340, one or more additional style feature selection commands are received from a user activating one or more command input fields provided for selecting additional style features to add the selected style feature to the base product. This step may be repeated until the user is satisfied with the configuration of the garment. Actions such as adding, removing, or replacing may also be included.
350 present on the terminal screen, on the selectable material presentation field 240, the set of selectable materials stored in and retrieved from the production parameters database 270. In an embodiment, each selectable material has an associated predetermined complex material sewing level. In such embodiments, the material may be selected by selecting a complex material sewing level coupled with a particular material, material property, or group of materials.
A material selection command for the base product and/or for the additional style feature is received 360 in the processor from a user who has activated one or more command input fields provided for selecting material.
370 in the processor, a configured product is formed by the configured apparel product generator 250 based on the received selection commands for the selected apparel base product, the possible selected add-on style features, and the selected material.
380 present a visual representation of the configured product on the configured apparel product presentation field 250 on the terminal screen.
An embodiment of the standard minute value calculator 260 is configured to: 390 calculate a standard minute worth estimate, by means of computer program code portions executed on a processor and comprising the following:
the method includes determining 400, in a processor, a complex material tailoring level for a configured product based on a material selected for a clothing base product and/or a possible additional style feature of the configured product. In an embodiment, as described above, each selectable material has an associated predetermined complex material sewing level. In such embodiments, the material may be selected by selecting a complex material sewing level coupled with a particular material, material property, or group of materials. In these embodiments, the step of determining the level of complex material sewing may entail retrieving a selected level of complexity.
410 determining, in the processor, a standard minute value for the configured product based on the preset standard minute value for the selected base product, the preset standard minute impact value for the selected add-on style feature, and the determined level of complex material stitching.
In an embodiment, the standard minute value for the configured product is calculated as the sum of the apparel base product SMV associated with the configured product and the add-on style product SMV impact value for the one or more selected add-on features multiplied by the complex material sewing level impact rate for the selected material. Expressed with mathematical operators, the standard minute value for a configured product is calculated as: (influence value of clothing base product SMV + additional style product SMV) × influence rate of sewing level of complex material.
Embodiments of the result presentation generator 272 are configured to: 420 generate a presentation of results implemented by means of computer program code portions executed on a processor and comprising the following:
430 present on the terminal screen, based on the determined standard minute value, an estimate of the production capacity required to manufacture the configured apparel product on the modified product SMV presentation field 272. In an embodiment, this may be an unprocessed standard minute worth estimate. In further embodiments, the results may be processed and presented as other values or parameters describing the desired production capacity.
The above-mentioned method steps and functions may be performed in a different order, repeated in a different loop of steps, or omitted.
When a base item of apparel has been selected and presented on the configured apparel item presentation field 250, a default SMV value for the base item is determined in the processor and presented on the base item SMV presentation field 274 on the user's terminal screen. Additional style features that may be selected for the currently selected apparel base product are presented in selectable additional style feature presentation field 230. Additional style features that have been added, removed, or replaced are tracked and rendered on style feature rendering field 280. The user may then choose to attach his style functionality and drag and drop it into the clothing base product presentation. For example, a single piece of leather collar (upper collar) may be selected as an additional style feature to replace the base collar of the garment base product. The modified product SMV is calculated and presented in the presentation field 272, while the base collar is presented in the alternate presentation field 286. In a similar manner, additional style features may be added and base features may be removed from the base product and modified product SMV values calculated and presented. The user may also select a material and/or complex material sewing level by activating a selection in the selectable material field 240, and then calculate and present a correspondingly modified product SMV.
Further embodiments include CMT (cut, sew and iron) calculation functions. In such an embodiment, the interactive visual interface shown in FIG. 2 includes a command input field 290 and/or a CMT value presentation field (not shown in FIG. 2). The CMT calculation is based on the determined SMV calculation value and possible additional information and calculation factors, for example stored in and retrieved from the database 130, 270.
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In accordance with one or more embodiments, a computer application and a processor executing the computer application may be configured to perform the selection of any or all of the method steps described herein.
In one or more embodiments, there is provided a computer-readable medium having stored thereon:
-non-transitory information or computer program code portions configured for performing a method according to any embodiment described herein; and/or
-non-transitory information or computer program code portions configured to control a processor/processing unit to perform any of the steps or functions of the embodiments described herein.
In one or more embodiments, there is provided a computer program product comprising code portions adapted to control a processor so as to perform any of the steps or functions of any of the embodiments described herein. Software (such as program code portions and/or data) in accordance with the present disclosure can be stored in a non-transitory form on one or more machine-readable media. In addition, the software identified herein may be implemented using one or more general purpose or special purpose computers and/or computer systems that are networked and/or otherwise.
Where applicable, one or more implementations provided by the present disclosure can be implemented using hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. Also, where applicable, the various hardware components and/or software components set forth herein may be combined into composite components comprising software, hardware, and/or both. Where applicable, the various hardware components and/or software components set forth herein may be divided into sub-portions comprising software, hardware, or both. Further, where applicable, it is contemplated that software components may be implemented as hardware components, and vice versa. Where applicable, the order of various steps described herein can be varied, combined into composite steps, and/or separated into sub-steps to provide features described herein.
The foregoing disclosure is not intended to limit the present embodiments to the precise forms or particular fields of use disclosed. It is contemplated that various alternative embodiments and/or modifications to the present embodiments are possible in light of the present disclosure, whether explicitly described or implied herein.
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1. A system for determining a production capacity required to manufacture an item of apparel, the system comprising a terminal, a computer processor, and computer program code portions configured to direct the computer processor to perform:
a. an apparel item configuration engine having a visual interactive user interface on a terminal screen and configured to:
i. presenting a set of selectable base products on the terminal screen and receiving a base product selection command;
presenting a set of selectable additional style features on the terminal screen and receiving an additional style feature selection command to add the selected style feature to the base product;
presenting on the terminal screen
iv selecting a set of materials and receiving material selection commands for the base product and/or for additional style features;
v. forming a configured product based on the received selection commands for the selected material, the selected base product and possibly the selected additional features, and storing the configured product in a memory;
presenting a visual representation of the configured product on the terminal screen;
b. a standard minute value calculator configured to:
i. determining and storing in memory a complex material tailoring level for the configured product based on the materials selected for the base product and possible additional style features of the configured product;
determining and storing in memory a standard minute value for the configured product based on a preset standard minute value for the selected base product, a preset standard minute impact value for the selected add-on style feature, and a complex material stitch level SMV impact rate for the determined complex material stitch level;
c. a result presentation generator configured to generate an estimate of the production capacity required to manufacture the configured apparel product based on the determined standard minute value, store the estimate in memory, and present the estimate on the terminal screen.
2. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct a computer processor to cause implementation of:
-presenting the selectable item of clothing and the selectable additional style feature as an icon image on the visual interactive user interface;
-implementing the icon image as a clickable icon image forming a selection command input field.
3. The system of claim 2, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct the computer processor to cause implementation of:
-implementing the selection command field as a clickable icon image configured to be dragged and dropped onto an item of apparel presentation field on the visual interface to indicate a selection and input a selection command.
4. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct a computer processor to cause implementation of:
-each selectable material has an associated preset complexity level of material sewing, the preset complexity level of sewing being stored as a parameter in a memory.
5. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct a computer processor to cause implementation of:
-each optional garment base product is associated with a preset garment base product SMV;
-each selectable add-on style feature is associated with a preset add-on style product SMV impact value;
-each selectable material is associated with a predetermined complex material sewing level impact rate; and
it is stored as a parameter in the memory.
6. The system of the preceding claim, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct a computer processor such that:
-calculating the standard minute value of the configured product as the sum of the apparel base product SMV associated with the configured product and the add-on style product SMV impact value of the one or more selected add-on features multiplied by the complex material sewing level impact rate of the selected material and storing it in memory.
7. The system of any of claims 1-6, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct a computer processor to:
-a CMT (cut, sew and iron) calculation function, wherein the CMT calculation is based on the determined standard minute value of the configured item of clothing.
8. A computer application program for determining a required production capacity for manufacturing a clothing product, comprising computer program code portions configured to direct a computer processor to perform:
a. an apparel item configuration engine having a visual interactive user interface on a terminal screen and configured to:
i. presenting a set of selectable base products on the terminal screen and receiving a base product selection command;
presenting a set of selectable additional style features on the terminal screen and receiving an additional style feature selection command to add the selected style feature to the base product;
presenting a set of selectable materials on the terminal screen and receiving material selection commands for a base product and/or for additional style features;
forming a configured product based on the received selection commands for the selected material, the selected base product and possibly the selected additional features, and storing the configured product in a memory;
v. presenting a visual representation of the configured product on the terminal screen;
b. a standard minute value calculator configured to:
i. determining a complex material sewing level for the configured product based on the selected materials for the base product and possible additional style features of the configured product and storing it in a memory;
determining and storing in memory a standard minute value for the configured product based on a preset standard minute value for the selected base product, a preset standard minute impact value for the selected add-on style feature, and a complex material stitch level SMV impact rate for the determined complex material stitch level;
c. a result presentation generator configured to generate an estimate of the production capacity required to manufacture the configured apparel product based on the determined standard minute value, store the estimate in memory, and present the estimate on the terminal screen.
9. The computer application of claim 8, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct the computer processor to:
-presenting the selectable item of clothing and the selectable additional style feature as an icon image on the visual interactive user interface;
-implementing the icon image as a clickable icon image forming a selection command input field.
10. The computer application of claim 9, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct the computer processor to:
-implementing the selection command field as a clickable icon image configured to be dragged and dropped onto an item of apparel presentation field on the visual interface to indicate a selection and input a selection command.
11. The computer application of claim 8, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct the computer processor to:
-each selectable material has an associated preset complexity level of material sewing, the preset complexity level of sewing being stored as a parameter in a memory.
12. The computer application of claim 8, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct the computer processor to:
-each optional garment base product is associated with a preset garment base product SMV;
-each selectable add-on style feature is associated with a preset add-on style product SMV impact value;
-each selectable material is associated with a predetermined complex material sewing level impact rate; and
it is stored as a parameter in the memory.
13. The computer application of the preceding claim, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct the computer processor to cause the following to be implemented:
-calculating the standard minute value of the configured product as the sum of the apparel base product SMV associated with the configured product and the add-on style product SMV impact value of the one or more selected add-on features multiplied by the complex material sewing level impact rate of the selected material and storing it in memory.
14. The computer application according to any of claims 8 to 13, further comprising computer program code portions configured to direct a computer processor to:
-a CMT (cut, sew and iron) calculation function, wherein the CMT calculation is based on the determined standard minute value of the configured item of clothing.
15. A method for determining, with the aid of a computer processor, a production capacity required for manufacturing an item of clothing, comprising:
i. presenting a set of selectable base products on a terminal screen and receiving a base product selection command;
presenting a set of selectable additional style features on the terminal screen and receiving an additional style feature selection command to add the selected style feature to the base product;
presenting a set of selectable materials on the terminal screen and receiving material selection commands for a base product and/or for additional style features;
forming a configured product based on the received selection commands for the selected material, the selected base product and possibly the selected additional features, and storing the configured product in a memory;
v. presenting a visual representation of the configured product on the terminal screen;
determining and storing in memory a complex material tailoring level for the configured product based on the materials selected for the base product and possible additional style features of the configured product;
determining and storing in memory a standard minute value of the configured product based on a preset standard minute value of the selected base product, a preset standard minute impact value of the selected add-on style feature, and a complex material sewing level SMV impact rate of the determined complex material sewing level;
generating an estimate of the production capacity required to manufacture the configured apparel product based on the determined standard minute value, storing the estimate in memory, and presenting the estimate on the terminal.
16. The method of claim 15, comprising:
-presenting the selectable clothing items and the selectable additional style features as icon images on the visual interactive user interface on the terminal screen;
-implementing the icon image as a clickable icon image forming a selection command input field.
17. The method of claim 16, comprising: implementing and presenting the selection command field on the terminal screen as:
-a clickable icon image configured to be dragged and dropped onto an apparel product presentation field on the visual interface to indicate a selection and to enter a selection command;
or
-a tap sensitive icon image configured to be tapped to indicate a selection and to input a selection command.
18. The method of claim 15, comprising:
-associating each selectable garment base product with a preset garment base product SMV;
-associating each selectable add-on style feature with a preset add-on style product SMV impact value;
-associating each selectable material with a predetermined complex material sewing level impact rate; and
-storing each association as a parameter in a memory.
19. The method according to the preceding claim, comprising:
-calculating the standard minute value of the configured product as the sum of the apparel base product SMV associated with the configured product and the add-on style product SMV impact value of the one or more selected add-on features multiplied by the complex material sewing level impact rate of the selected material and storing it in memory.
20. The method of any of claims 15 to 19, further comprising:
-calculating and storing in memory a CMT (cut, sew and iron) value, wherein the CMT calculation is based on the determined standard minute value of the configured item of apparel.
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