PI Apparel 2019 | Sponsors

Market Leader in Digital Transformation Solutions for the Fashion Industry

DeSL is a leading provider of PLM and integrated web-based solutions for the Fashion, Apparel, Textile, and Footwear sectors. DeSL solutions span the widest range of business processes relevant to today’s progressive, forward-thinking companies in digital transformation efforts. Founded in 2002, DeSL is headquartered in Cardiff, Wales, with locations in New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, and Istanbul, Turkey. Our extensive series of specialized software have been designed to accommodate the demands of businesses of all sizes, SMB to Enterprise.

For more information, please visit https://www.desl.net 

For companies that breathe life into our wardrobes, car interiors, furniture and more, Lectra is crafting the premium technologies that facilitate the digital transformation of their industry.

Lectra’s offer empowers brands and manufacturers from design to production, providing them with the market respect and peace of mind they deserve. Founded in 1973, today Lectra has 32 subsidiaries across the globe, serving customers in over 100 countries. With more than 1,700 employees, Lectra reported revenues of $333 million in 2018. Lectra is listed on Euronext (LSS).

For more information, please visit www.lectra.com

Are you ready to regain control over your supply chain, even if that supply chain is located on the other side of the world? Stop worrying about potential product scandals now. With the transparency Pivot88 offers, you can finally have the peace of mind that your product will arrive on time, and without any surprises.

Pivot88 is the #1 quality and compliance platform enabling 360° supply chain transparency from raw material sourcing to customer delivery and beyond. Pivot88 is designed to enhance your quality & compliance performance and to manage your business risks. 100% digital, dynamic and powered by applied artificial intelligence, it offers instant actionable data analytics for smarter and faster decisions.

Built by industry experts with decades of experience, Pivot88 offers the richest and most user-friendly quality and compliance software in the industry. Our powerful platform, built on industry best practices, is the perfect match for brands, factories and third parties.

Our stories make us unique: over 18,000 companies in more than 60 countries chose us as their trusted partner. Our clients come from different geographies, sizes, and industries. This helped us develop a complete solution that can be easily implemented and configured. As a result, one of our clients once said, “Pivot88 gives you the tools to be successful. It is truly the best platform in the industry”.

Retail's Most Widely-Used PLM Platform. By Far.

PTC leads the world in fashion and retail PLM, with three times more active users than any other retail PLM vendor. More than 1,000 brand and retail businesses have already used PTC FlexPLM to transform their in-house processes, and to collaborate seamlessly with their suppliers, taking advantage of FlexPLM's unmatched reach into the international supply chain. 

Today, more than 211,500 users worldwide trust FlexPLM with their strategic digital transformation objectives and their end-to-end digital workflows. FlexPLM is proven at multinational enterprise scale, across every product category from technical footwear to luxury apparel, with security, scalability and performance that measure up to the expectations of the most demanding retail businesses.

To meet the needs of iconic brands and household names in retail, PTC has invested heavily in cutting-edge research and development to ensure that FlexPLM is the industry's most feature-rich PLM platform. This commitment has earned recognition from leading analyst firms such as IDC and Quadrant Solutions.

When retail and brand customers select PTC, they stay with us. Our existing customers install more new PLM licenses in a year than other PLM vendors have implemented in their entire lifespans. And prior to the launch of the revolutionary new FlexPLM V12 our industry-leading upgrade program had seen many customers upgraded to modern versions of FlexPLM - giving them an onramp to new features and cutting-edge innovations.

FlexPLM V12: A New Chapter in Fashion and Retail PLM

The fashion, apparel, and consumer goods industries have faced historic disruption, compounded by longstanding challenges and market pressures. Commercialization cycles have been compressed, complex global supply chains have been stretched to breaking point, and digital-native consumers dictate the speed of demand across a shifting network of channels.

PTC FlexPLM V12 is a landmark release of retail's most widely-used PLM platform, and opens a new chapter in retail PLM: an era of solutions specifically designed for a digitally connected world, and for brand and retail businesses that need to work@digitalspeed.

Built for remote working and global collaboration, FlexPLM V12 introduces several transformational innovations. A new, modern, highly visual and fully responsive user interface puts critical processes, features and actionable insights at user's fingertips. Faster navigation and optimized, responsive layouts, eliminate horizontal scrolling and reflow to fit almost any device, keeping individuals connected and working@digitalspeed wherever they are. 

One of the latest retail businesses to join the PTC family, women's activewear brand Sweaty Betty turned to FlexPLM during the COVID-19 pandemic, looking for a secure online environment that would allow [their] product teams to standardize business processes and data sharing both internally and externally and to establish a single source of truth across its buying, merchandising, and design processes at a time of historic disruption. 

FlexPLM V12 also introduces the Visual Line Collaboration app, giving brand and retail businesses a turnkey solution to digitizing their line review processes and making them fit for the world of remote working and collaboration, as well as empowering them to make smarter forecasting and merchandising decisions, cutting line review preparation from weeks to hours. 

Integrations and Innovations

Built on PTC's enterprise-grade IoT platform ThingWorx, the ThingWorx Retail Connector (TRC) enables FlexPLM users to quickly integrate the different business systems and solutions that make up their technology ecosystems.

Using the TRC, FlexPLM links seamlessly to leading 3D tools, planning solutions, ERP and financial systems, and virtually any other business solution - all without the need for costly customization.

This flexibility and speed have allowed FlexPLM customers to rapidly unlock the value of digital product creation and 3D workflows, with native and bi-directional integrations between FlexPLM and leading 3D solutions like Browzwear and CLO, as well as TRC-enabled integrations to more technical 3D solutions like RomansCad, developed in partnership with long-established PTC brand partners like Deckers.

Unlocking the Value of AI & AR

FlexPLM V12 is the only retail PLM platform to come with intuitive, user-configurable AI and machine learning capabilities built-in. In the face of constant uncertainty, brand and retail businesses need to sharpen their competitive edge, and FlexPLM provides the tools to help them react instantly to change, with smart insights and real-time analytics at users fingertips.

We have also built on FlexPLM's class-leading integration to 3D design tools to create an environment that allows our customers to take their 3D assets to the next level, and build complete digital product creation to eCommerce workflows. From range-building and in-house review to immersive consumer-facing experiences, FlexPLM's augmented reality support delivers on the vision of digital-native design, development, and commercialization.

The PTC Retail team has experts on the ground in every major fashion hub worldwide, who stand ready to help brands, retailers, and suppliers make the most of the game-changing innovations in the latest version of FlexPLM, and to seize the opportunities offered by technologies like 3D, AR, and AI through our Retail Digital Transformation Platform.

The latest from PTC FlexPLM

To keep up with the latest successes from FlexPLM customers, follow the hashtags #developedonflexplm #digitalspeed #FlexPLMV12 and engage with us across our social media platforms.

3dMD develops and markets the most widely-deployed, high-speed static-3D and temporal-3D (motion) camera systems for human subject input applications that demand anatomical image precision including healthcare, wearable technologies, apparel, anthropometrics, human factors, AR/VR, and security. Combining subject workflow efficiency with the ability to generate a progressive 3D sequence of high-quality motion images of the face, head, hand, foot, or full body, 3dMD supports many innovations from clinical findings to the creation of new wearable technologies, clothing, accessories, and footwear that precisely adapt to fit to a person’s unique shape enhancing comfort and performance.

Alvanon was founded in 2001 when it developed a unique and innovative data-driven approach to solving the challenges of sizing and fit inherent in the apparel industry. Since that time, it has evolved into a global company using the latest innovations and technologies to shape the future of fit.

Advising the world's leading apparel organizations on how to align their internal teams, processes and supply chains; more intimately engage their existing and target customers; and innovate to optimize profitability and achieve their growth objectives. It has amassed a wealth of expertise across every key industry discipline including consumer analytics, concept and technical design, product development, manufacturing, quality, sourcing, planning, merchandising, distribution, marketing, e-commerce and professional development.

Alvanon has attracted and nurtured top-tier data analyst, 3D modelers and apparel experts. The Group now operates in 89 countries and has evolved into an innovations company reinventing the way fashion works.  It operates from its head office in New York, European headquarters in London, and Asia office in Hong Kong. Alvanon also has research, development and manufacturing facilities in Dongguan, China. 

ArcherGrey is a consulting company specializing in PLM. Our services include strategy, implementations, migrations, upgrades, integrations, enhancements, staff augmentation, training and on-going support. Our market-leading customer satisfaction of delivering quality on mission critical projects is made possible by combining top-tier talent and value-based pricing.

Avery Dennison businesses around the world share one vision: to make brands more inspiring and the world more intelligent. Our adhesive technologies, display graphics and packaging materials make products more engaging and brands more compelling. They bring greater clarity to surroundings, more insights to inventories, and added value to the information consumers and businesses demand. From apparel branding to consumer packaged goods; from vinyl graphics to RFID tags, Avery Dennison’s innovative functional materials play powerful roles in everyday lives.

Wherever we’re located, Avery Dennison sets the standard high, with cutting-edge adhesive technologies and materials that inspire packaging trends across industries and around the globe.

Bamboo Rose is the leading multi-enterprise product and supply chain platform connecting companies to help bring great products to market faster, more efficiently, and at higher margins.

Our B2B platform simplifies the product creation and delivery process by combining a digital Marketplace with PLM, Sourcing, PO Management, Global Trade Management, and Financing solutions, all supported by intelligent engines for optimization, costing, and scheduling.

Bamboo Rose serves over 250K user members, 400 brands, and 35K suppliers and service providers throughout the world, allowing them to discover, develop, and deliver products at digital speed. Learn more at bamboorose.com, or find us on Twitter at @GoBambooRose.

Bring them together, and great people make great products. BeProduct is built for both. A new kind of fashion PLM platform, made by people passionate about product. And a smart social space, designed for creativity and collaboration.

About Browzwear

Browzwear's pioneering 3D solutions for apparel design, development and merchandising are the key to a successful digital product life-cycle. Through the power of true-to-life 3D, designers, developers, and production and marketing teams collaborate effectively to deliver creative products to market faster than ever before. With Browzwear, brands and retailers around the world connect people and processes, reduce iterations and samples, and merchandise garments even before they are produced.

Leading the 3D Revolution

Until recently, the fashion industry followed a  traditional workflow that involved sketches, manual pattern design, and hand-sewn samples. Today, thanks to a new generation of technology, leading fashion companies are doing it all in true-to-life 3D. Browzwear is proud to be leading the digital apparel revolution since 2000, with groundbreaking 3D products for garment developers, fashion designers, and merchandisers.

A Global Company for a Global Industry

With headquarters in Singapore, R&D in Israel, and customer service in the US, Asia Pacific & Europe, Browzwear is a trusted partner of brands and manufacturers worldwide. More than 400 apparel companies including Adidas, Nike, VF, and Li & Fong, and their supply chain collaborators use Browzwear technologies to bring creative products to market faster. Learn more at www.browzwear.com

CLO Virtual Fashion is committed to innovating the way we communicate fashion through our true-to-life 3D garment simulation technology.  Our virtual garment solutions and services connect all teams involved in the digital product lifecycle, enabling more direct collaboration and reduced lead time, whilst maintaining the intricacies of garment design. We envision our garment simulation technology to become not only the tool to create virtual garments, but also the platform to provide valuable data about garments, designs, and trends, by virtualizing every garment on Earth.

Our products range from CLO (3D Design Software for apparel designers and brands), to Marvelous Designer (3D Design Software for character artists in gaming and animation companies), to Benefit by CLO (Virtual Fitting Platform), to CLOSET (Communications and Archiving Platform for virtual garments), to Marvelous SDK (Real Time Draping Engine for games) to create a new ecosystem for virtual garments.

Through these services and our continuing research and development in 3D and garment design, we are transforming the way we produce and consume garments - both tangible (actual garments from brands) and intangible (virtual garments in games and movies), for ones we wear and what our virtual characters wear.

Foundry develops creative software for the Digital Design, Media and Entertainment industries. With a 20-year heritage and a portfolio of award-winning products, Foundry advances the art and technology of visual experience in partnership with creative leaders around the globe.

Our creative design platforms Modo and Colorway enable our customers to transform how they visualize product, materials and color from conception through to photorealistic 3D models.

These high quality, digital assets enable brands to enhance communication within their design, marketing, merchandising, sales and manufacturing teams as well as externally to consumers. Working with industry leading footwear and apparel brands, Foundry aims to create, develop and enhance the digital content workflow for design teams and artists.

From first stage prototype through to web-site ready assets, Foundry is helping footwear and apparel brands to remain innovative and creative and allows them to respond effectively to market changes, in order to gain a competitive advantage.

For more information visit www.foundry.com

Frontier is currently one of the largest databases of searchable online fabrics in the world, containing more than 18000+ fabrics. It is growing at 1,000 items per month, with expected exponential growth with every brand and suppliers joining the digital community. 

Business of every size – from individual designers to global brands – use our network platform to search, organize, and communicate on daily basis. Our mission is to create an online eco-system for the textile industry.

Designers and developers at a brand or retailer can use the platform to image search, find similar items via AI or search by description, blend, color, pantone and other specs. 

Using fabrics that already exist in your supply chain, rather than manufacturing unnecessary yardage, reduces the use of harmful chemicals and dyestuffs, saving precious resources. 

With textile industry digitizing, more players coming in. Frontier sees it as a unique opportunity. Frontier offers the fastest way to move supplier's items online and to provide the basic material data in this industry so other applications can be built on such as 3D design tools. It creates a digital cycle connecting suppliers and brands on cloud which greatly reduces inefficiency for garment development.

The digital revolution is growing, and so is the need for connectivity. That’s why Gerber Technology, whose industry-leading software and automation solutions help customers improve their design and manufacturing processes and more effectively manage the supply chain, has launched its own integrated digital revolution.

Gerber’s digital solutions connect seamlessly— YuniquePLM™ and AccuMark® share planning and design information; then pass critical production data on to our GERBERspreaders™ and GERBERcutters®. Gerber helps you increase productivity, shorten cycle times and automate critical processes. Plus, by creating one version of the truth, we give your entire team greater visibility into work in process.

Inspectorio offers a quality inspection and compliance verification Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) network platform, empowering unparalleled, efficiency, transparency, and accuracy.

Inspectorio's network dynamic capabilities empower organizations to build a digital ecosystem around their global production chain. Inspectorio leverages cognitive computing to increase collaboration and connectivity between key stakeholders, promoting self-inspections, developing robust algorithms for automation and empowering organizations to build a digital ecosystem.

Inspectorio's features include real-time data sharing, predictive-recommended action plans, defect prediction algorithm, risk assessment, an adaptive inspection process, real-time supervision of inspection execution, process automation, configurable workflows, corrective action plans, and location-based action plans, among others. These key features create continuous and mutual value, secure operational efficiency and increase return on innovation investments.

Inspectorio accelerates the seamless transition of forward-thinking organizations to a digital, interconnected, and empowered production chain.

Kalypso is a professional services firm helping retail, footwear and apparel clients discover, create, make and sell better products with digital. We provide consulting, digital, enterprise technology, business process management and managed services to transform the end-to-end product development lifecycle.

Morgan Tecnica Spa based in Northern Italy, bringing the latest in Fashion TecnoInnovation for companies in all area’s of the industry. From Design and Creation (New 3Dress Solution) through the entire process of pattern creation, production and manufacturing, our company designs and manufacturers the latest in solutions of all types of software and machinery to optimize your Design, Production and Cutting Room Operation.

Fully integrated “Fusion” solution as well as compatible technology in order to communicate with all companies, our products and solutions are the most versitile and successful solutions in the market today.

PwC helps business leaders create a guided path to innovation by developing the right methods that generate insight-based ideas, and to select, produce and commercialize the most valuable and viable results. We bring together customer and industry perspectives to spot competitive threats and uncover opportunities to leap ahead. 

Our cross-disciplinary teams also understand the ripple effect of innovation across the business such as understanding tax implications and managing risk. We help foster innovation across organizations—helping realign teams, processes, structures, incentives, technology and investments to accelerate and sustain innovator potential. 

QIMA is a leading provider of supply chain compliance solutions, that partners with brands, retailers and importers to secure and improve the quality of their global supply network.

QIMA combines on-the-ground experts in 85 countries for quality inspections, supplier audits, certification and lab testing, with a digital platform that brings accuracy, visibility and intelligence for quality and compliance data.

Texbase provides cloud software that tracks your R&D, manages testing from concept to compliance, and connects you to your suppliers and labs. Every step of the product development, testing and compliance processes needs to be tracked, measured, managed and reported.

Our software gives you the power to manage and share thousands of data points associated with every product - from raw materials to finished products and from ideation through production. We understand the complexity of managing the disparate data sources associated with product development and supply chain management. 

With our deep roots in materials development, Texbase is an end to end solution with the ability to integrate with current systems already in place.

Trasix was established in 2011 with the belief that the apparel and footwear industry needs a fresh approach to digital transformation. We put together a team of innovative and creative minds and delivered a platform that is used today by most of the leading market players. Our users span the globe and we are just getting started!

Our platform will eliminate inefficient processes and siloed distribution and sales divisions. We will streamline your line planning, step up your merchandising, improve your forecasting, build your digital catalogs, virtualize your samples and transform your sell-in and sell-through processes. Our cloud-based platform will seamlessly engage your merchandizer, distribution network and sales teams to collaborate around your product range and efficiently manage your go-to-market.

We are continuously investing in R&D to imbed emerging technologies and improve our easy-to-use platform. We are on a mission to increase your sales in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible and we offer our customers seamless adoption by running as a standalone platform or fully integrating with your existing systems and tools.

Join our journey today and benefit from an immediate ROI.

Talk to us on how we can help you transform.

Tukatech has been a driving force behind the apparel industry’s technology revolution, with constant momentum toward ground-breaking fashion technology.

Tukatech’s award-winning pattern-making, grading, and marker-making software maximizes design and creativity using next-level process engineering. Their virtual sample-making solution uses life-like 3D fit models and motion simulation, allowing for true assessment of fit, as well as design visualization.

Tukatech systems have made an enormous impact on the industry for over two decades, empowering their partners with measurable efficiencies, improved productivity, and increased profitability.

Tukatech systems for product development, cloud collaboration, and garment manufacturing are known industry-wide for their ease, simplicity, and flexibility. They continue to transform and propel the industry forward with advanced solutions for business of any size.

The Virtualization of a physical material sample is a difficult and time-consuming task. What is commonly used is a flatbed scanner or consumer camera, serval image processing tools and a lot of time. Revolutionizing the process, Vizoo now offers a new way to easily create 3D materials. The xTex Scanner captures material samples fast and accurately, while the xTex Sotfware provides useful tools for texture processing. With a capture and calculation time of only two minutes, textures based on physical material information and up to 2000 dpi are now available almost instantly. The tool focuses on clarity and effectiveness, so even inexperienced users can create stunning materials. Founded in Germany, Vizoo is a small team of people working together with a strong network of partners and suppliers. 

Founded in 1958, X-Rite Incorporated is a global leader in the science and technology of color and appearance.  With its wholly owned subsidiary Pantone, X-Rite employs more than 800 people in 11 countries. Experts in blending the art and science of color, we focus on providing complete end-to-end color management solutions for our clients in every industry where color matters.
X-Rite Pantone, as global leader in color science and technology, has taken an ambitious step beyond color to tackle the more significant challenge of capturing and managing appearance. Total Appearance Capture (TAC™) Ecosystem, a solution that allows you to capture and virtualize materials that have the exact same visual characteristics as their physical counterparts, and enables an unmatched level of realism and efficiency in digital material capture and 3D design. With it’s AxF (Appearance eXchange Format) file, the premier file format exclusively designed for platform-independent storage and digital communication of all measured appearance attributes, the TAC technology brings product designs to life with digital material representations and consistently share material appearance information across every step of the product development process to reduce design approval cycles and accelerate time to market. The company’s corporate headquarters are located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with regional headquarters in Europe (Regensdorf) and Asia (Shanghai) and service centers across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. For further information, please visit www.xrite.com/TAC .