CUSTOMIZED WORK EQUIPMENT THROUGH INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR DESIGN AND VIRTUAL SIMULATION

Textile, clothing and technical products sector has an important impact on economic growth, sustainable development and employment. The paper presents the implementation of the innovative informational technology for design and customization of work equipment, highlighting the importance of personalizing clothing and its competitive advantages, from the idea to the prototype or product and testing it. The purpose of the research was to increase the competitiveness and quality of products obtained from the SC C&A Company Impex SRL, by the innovative informational technology for design and customization of work equipment, already validated by the National R&D Institute for Textiles and Leather - INCDTP. By action of customization is understood individuality, customization and awareness that each wearer has different conformation and carry out specific activities. Customized work equipment involves the dimensional and conformational aspects of the body, respectively the product size as well as the quality-linked functionality criterion, aspects regarding its wearability and protection tested in accredited laboratories, the effects over the individual comfort. The research implementation used 3D body scanning for analysis and determination of anthropometric measurements and conformation, 3D CAD technology for automatic rapid design of patterns in made to measure system, modeling and simulation of product in the virtual environment on customized mannequin highlighting the body-product correspondence. These recent technological advances lead to a restructuring of the clothing industry, increasing the capacity to efficiently and readily satisfy the requests of each customer or even to produce clothing items with increasingly more efficient services for the client