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From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions?to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. 
 

Evolved from the word “clothing,” CLO Virtual Fashion’s mission is to empower every step of the garment journey, from concept to design, manufacturing to marketing, and fitting to styling. With more than 20 years of research and development in accurate garment simulation, CLO is leading the market by digitally creating, merging, and converging all aspects related to digital garments through our state-of-the-art 3D Cloth Simulation Algorithm. 
 
CLO's ecosystem includes 3D garment design software, digital asset management, and a collaborative design platform, along with consumer-facing offerings such as e-commerce virtual fittings. All of CLO's products and services are interconnected to create a seamless user experience. 
 
With our newest 7.1 software launch, users can design garments faster, easier, and more accurately than before, creating hyper-realistic virtual clothing that can be transported into entertainment, games, the metaverse, and real life. 
 
CLO has launched several new initiatives to push the fashion industry forward, including virtual try-on services and showrooms, a Metaverse Converting Service, and a Web3-powered digital fashion marketplace. CLO is confident that our technology will power the future of everything related to garments, and we’re excited to build it together with our user community.

DeSL’s comprehensive solutions help teams and vendors collaborate seamlessly, make data-driven decisions, and innovate faster. Modular software design leverages digital and AI technologies from SMB to enterprise level businesses while easily integrating into existing infrastructure.

These solutions include:

· Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): Centralize complete development workflow

· Digital Color Approvals/Color Lifecycle Management ™ (CLM): Fully manage approvals and ensure color consistency

· Digital Planning Boards: Visual workspace for design, merchandising, and development teams

· PO Management: Seamlessly manage supply chain collaboration and ensure deliveries

· Total Quality Management: Control compliance, testing, and quality at every stage

· Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Collaborate with vendors, track compliance, and ensure traceability

· Product Information Management (PIM): Create a single source of truth for all product data

· Sustainability Accelerator Program: Tools to manage vendor compliance, traceability, & support DPP needs.

Design It  |  Source It  |  Sell It 

The human body is at the heart of Humanetics’ work. We're not just experts – we're innovators in scanning, measuring, analyzing, and digitizing real people to revolutionize howproducts interact with users. Our mission? To engineer a world where products fitseamlessly, vehicles represent comfort, and tech devices are intuitively user-friendly.Leveraging extensive data from our global body scanning initiatives, we offer our clientsprecise measurement solutions, tailor-made for today's dynamic market needs.

Our range of services include:

3D Body Scanning and software solutions

Advanced body data for research and analytics

Digital avatars

Individual and standard fit forms

Customized size and fit development and optimization

Insightful market share analysis for streamlined order processing and minimized returns

Global standardized or individualized size surveys

Global adaptation of fit and sizing systems for international markets

Join us at PI Apparel to explore how Humanetics can be the game-changer for your business in this digital age. Our offices are located in Kaiserslautern and Munich, Germany, Morrisville (NC), USA,Shanghai, China and Tokyo, Japan. We are part of the Humanetics Group – a leading provider of precision safety systems, simulation models, ergonomic software, and advanced sensor technologies. The group has 1000 employees across 21 facilities strategically located around the world with the global corporate headquarters situated in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA.

With almost 50 years of experience, Lectra is the global leader in fashion technology with a strong focus on digitalisation solutions, further strengthening its position with the acquisition of Gerber Technologies in 2021. Through the power of cloud technology, Lectra™s Next Gen collaborative PxM platform offers an adaptable ecosystem for PLM, PIM and DAM, supported by native integration to AI-powered competitive benchmarking and D2C marketplace syndication.

Lectra is already a digital transformation partner of choice for 21,000+ fashion retailers, brands and manufacturers globally, helping them respond with efficiency and speed in order to deliver the ultimate consumer experience.

Optitex is a global software provider of integrated 2D-3D CAD solutions for the fashion and apparel
industry. 
Optitex solutions guide users across the product development journey, digitally streamlining true-to-
fit development to efficient production. With three decades of patternmaking experience and an
ever-growing base of over 30,000 users, Optitex’s solutions serve a multitude of business purposes.
These include scale on demand, workflow efficiency, accurate digital fit, grading across all sizes, and
reduction of physical samples, with the aim to optimize fit & quality, minimize the development
cycle, reduce returns, and shorten speed to market.  
The pattern-intuitive software offers brands, retailers and manufacturers a rich set of patternmaking
tools that create complex patterns, dynamic measurement and detailed costing. These tools,
alongside advanced 3D-development tools for virtual sampling and fit, allow Optitex’s customers to
cut down waste significantly, and become sustainable in a substantive and qualitative manner. 
 To learn more about Optitex, visit www.optitex.com.

Retail's leading extended supply chain management solutions provider, TradeBeyond helps brands and retailers streamline product development and sourcing all the way through order, production, and delivery. Through innovative sourcing management, product lifecycle management (PLM), and production and order management solutions, TradeBeyond empowers more efficient, responsible supply chains for many of the world’s largest retailers. TradeBeyond is also the provider of Pivot88, retail’s most trusted quality, compliance, and traceability platform.

PTC enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with software solutions that enable them to accelerate product and service innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase workforce productivity. In combination with an extensive partner network, PTC provides customers flexibility in how its technology can be deployed to drive digital transformation – on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS platform. At PTC, we don’t just imagine a better world, we enable it. For more information, please visit www.ptc.com

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.

4DdZine is a software & services company located in Kortrijk Belgium. Our team specializes in creating advanced real-time solutions for the B2B industry. We are a young and multidisciplinary team with a passion for 3D graphics. We work hand-in-hand with engineers, 3D artists and business partners to understand problems, create solutions, execute plans and communicate results.

Discover how to create state-of-the-art 3D designs with Adobe’s ecosystem of powerful apps and content. In the Substance 3D ecosystem, smart creative apps and high-end content give you everything you need to make inspiring art. For the beginner and expert alike.

Build your model and sculpt in VR and on desktop with Substance 3D Modeler, assemble photorealistic 3D scenes in Substance 3D Stager, and texture your 3D assets using Substance 3D Painter. Work from real-life photos to create digital materials using Substance 3D Sampler and build your parametric materials with full authoring control using Substance 3D Designer. Access thousands of customizable models, lights and materials created by specialists and word-class guest artists in Substance3D assets. The modifiable parameters will allow you to create infinite variations.

Get content, get inspired, get creative.

Audaces is a known company for developing solutions that are easy to learn and use, that speeds up the creation, the development and production of clothes. But we are audacious; our intelligence also answers the needs of other industries like upholstery, footwear, furniture, transportation and others.

We are partners and facilitators; we know each customer has a challenge, that’s why we offer solutions that adapt themselves to different needs. We are global, leaders in Latin America and we are present in over 70 countries around the world. We are Audaces and we help you make your ideas come true with engagement, design and results.

Bamboo Rose delivers a powerful suite of solutions designed to support the complex needs of today’s retailers and brands. At the core is TotalPLM™, a comprehensive and innovative product lifecycle management (PLM) and supply chain platform. TotalPLM combines Planning and Merchandising, Creative Collaboration, Product Development, Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management, Purchase Order Management, and Global Trade Management, all powered by AI-fueled Decision Intelligence.

From concept to creation, Bamboo Rose enables fashion and apparel brands to work smarter and faster with tools that improve collaboration, boost efficiency, and strengthen supply chain resiliency. We take pride in understanding our customers’ challenges and delivering tailored solutions that drive real business impact.

Bamboo Rose has surpassed $2 trillion in retail revenue under management and launched an enterprise sourcing platform project with Walmart. We were also named a leader in the December 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail, Footwear, and Apparel PLM Vendor Assessment.

To learn more about how Bamboo Rose helps the world’s top retailers and brands thrive in an evolving market, visit bamboorose.com or follow us on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/bamboorose.

Design and launch production-ready collections in minutes. Produce within hours.

Bespokify enables brands to rapidly launch new apparel products and sell custom sizing at scale. Our web application automatically generates everything needed to produce and sell your unique designs in minutes. Export all production and merchandising assets within a few clicks, including photorealistic product images, graded patterns, fabric-optimised marker, order-of-sewing data, bill of materials, tech pack, fabric cutting machine files, RFID data, and much more.

Our technology reduces product launch timelines from months to minutes by automating technical product development, grading, sampling, costing, production-line planning, machine automation code, etc. It also enables you to be hyper-responsive to market trends by leveraging AI to design products in real-time using big data. By leveraging our growing network of Bespokify-enabled on-demand factories, it’s even possible to manufacturer collections within hours of designing.

Browzwear aligns and accelerates digital workflows, from sketch to store.

A trusted partner of more than 1,000 fashion and apparel companies worldwide, Browzwear unlocks digital craftsmanship, allowing the creative act to flow across the entire value chain. Advanced 3D visualization is the foundation for software and services that make it possible to design, produce, and sell with remarkable efficiency. Virtual prototypes are true to life. Sampling and production are streamlined. Ideas come to market faster, with cost and waste reduced at every step of the way. The result is nothing less than the digital transformation of the entire fashion industry. 

Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics. We create the technology that helps artists and designers create photoreal imagery and animation for design, television, and feature films.

Our physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Our research and development in cloud rendering, material scanning, and virtual reality is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design.

Coloro is a revolutionary color system, changing the way creatives, manufacturers and suppliers work with color.

A sister brand of WGSN, the global trend forecaster, Coloro is an intelligent, logical color system that makes color decision-making accurate and fast.

We have worked closely with leading textile and fashion companies across numerous brands and manufacturers to create Coloro. We listened closely to their everyday struggles, one thing above all was clear—they wanted to achieve the colors they had in mind faster.

You can access our extensive library of 3,500 contemporary colors using our free digital Workspace tool, through our color books, and by purchasing swatches online.

Talk to our experts, contact@coloro.com

Discover a new world of color possibilities in our free workspace at Coloro.com

FIT RETAIL is an expertise and support firm for the implementation of product information digital solutions. Our ambition is to facilitate the use of IT tools and the collaboration of our clients' teams. Our goal is to boost the creativity of our clients’ team and help them enforce innovation at the heart of their activity

We are working for Luxury, Apparel, Fashion and Retail and we propose to our customers 360° fitted offer :

• Advisory & Process
• Project & integration
• Change & adoption
• Maintenance & Evolutions
• Innovation

We work with different tools like :

• PLM Solutions : (we are certified partners Centric & PTC),
• PIM/DAM,
• Adobe, 3D

FIT RETAIL is a subsidiary of the NEO-SOFT Group (1200 employees and 78 M€ in revenues in 2017).

We are based in Europe with 3 offices in France : Paris (headquarters), Lille, Rennes and we are opening now in Germany and UK.

For more information visit our website www.fit-retail.com  or contact us on contact@fit-retail.com

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

Inspectorio is a supply chain management platform that empowers global brands and traceability, and production management operations directly from a centralized tool. From in-factory self inspections and CAPA recommendations to comprehensive multi-tier traceability and chain of custody reporting, Inspectorio helps brands and retailers improve the quality of their products, reduce compliance risks, and streamline market access to drive revenue growth.

We work with three of the world’s top five retailers, including Lululemon, Dick’s Sporting Good’s, Kohls, Mango, Delta Galil and more.

Learn more about Inspectorio
Contact us

Kalypso is Rockwell Automation's digital services arm. We take a holistic view of capabilities across your end-to-end value chain, from concept to customer, and re-envision them as a seamlessly integrated digital thread powered by virtualization, automation and analytics to deliver transformative value. Brands that were built over generations are facing rapidly changing consumer needs, manufacturing constraints and supply chain challenges.
But this isn't new. What is new, and leading organizations are realizing it, is that digital transformation in all areas of the business - from discovering ideas to creating prototypes to making finished products and even selling them to consumers - can and will unlock speed to market, improve response to consumer needs, manufacturing productivity, and agile operations. We are innovators, strategists, data scientists and technologists. We are product people, driven by digital solutions. We look forward to meeting you!

meepl deals with the acquisition & processing of body-related data and provides Software-as-a-Service solutions that are addressing the challenges of the apparel industry.

Leveraging artificial intelligence and visual computing, meepl enables brands and retailers to reduce return rates, digitize supply chains and deliver a completely new, interactive and personalized 3D shopping experience to end users. meepl’s product portfolio offers smartphone-based 3D body scanning, size recommendation, a 3D virtual showroom, and a 3D virtual dressing room.

Welcome to the world of MorganTecnica, a leader in innovation for advanced cutting room
management. Founded in 2008 and based in Italy, we are a multinational group with six operational
offices worldwide. We take pride in conducting all research and development activities, as well as
production, entirely in Italy.
Specializing in cutting-edge solutions, we develop dedicated software for garment design and
modeling, along with machinery for the cutting room. Our range includes fabric spreading machines
and fabric cutting machines, all strictly blade-based.
We are committed to providing technologically advanced and innovative solutions for the textile
industry, adapting flexibly to diverse production needs. Our offering includes products designed to
meet every specific requirement of the cutting room, adeptly handling any type of textile material.
Our team comprises highly qualified professionals, including engineers, designers, researchers, and
industry experts. MorganTecnica is the ideal choice for those seeking the utmost quality and reliability
in cutting room management.

Share inspirations, communicate and create visually.  Mushin is the pioneering visual collaboration technology.

Embrace digital transformation with Mushin!
In a world of physical and digital, never has it been more important for influential leaders of brands, retailers and suppliers to swiftly engage, embrace and deploy 'digital collaboration’ within their existing workflows.

Grow a collaborative culture!
Mushin is revolutionising the upstream lifecycle process, from initial concept design to product validation. Say 'goodbye' to standard presentation packages and endless email trails, by enhancing your overall visual communication process within a digital environment.

Our agile visual collaboration platform, enables internal teams, global departments and external partnerships to visually share inspirations, communicate on projects and collaborate more effectively and faster than before, in real-time.

Prisma Tech offers technological solutions in order to improve company’s product development processes, especially for what concerns design, engineering, prototyping and production simulation processes.

In the last 10 years his focus it’s especially on fashion industry becoming exclusive partner for Italy of Clo Virtual Fashion with the famous software 3D solution www.clo3d.com.

Prisma Tech also delivers cutting-edge virtual fitting solutions through an advanced process of customer digitalization, enhancing the shopping experience and significantly reducing returns in the retail sector. Our offerings include SizeFlow, a precise size recommendation tool, and FitFlow, an interactive virtual fitting tool that simulates real-time garment fit on personalized avatars. Together, these innovations provide customers with confidence in their purchases, whether they shop online or in-store, creating a seamless and personalized shopping journey. The SizeFlow service transforms online shopping by providing highly accurate, personalized size recommendations. Using cutting-edge body measurement technology and in-depth product data, we ensure that customers consistently choose the perfect fit, enhancing comfort while minimizing the inconvenience of returns.

How it works:

1. Product Data: The SizeFlow system analyzes extensive product information, including size charts, specific garment dimensions, and fit characteristics, to deliver the most accurate size recommendation for each customer.
2. Customer Data: SizeFlow utilizes customer-specific body measurements—such as height, weight, and fit preferences—to refine size suggestions. Its flexible algorithm also takes into account factors like body mass index (BMI) and other customizable parameters for a tailored fit.
3. Advanced Technology: Whether inputting basic details like height and weight or using advanced tools like video scanning and 3D body scanning, SizeFlow captures precise data to provide consistently accurate and reliable size recommendations.
SizeFlow seamlessly adapts to various products and brands, ensuring customers find the perfect fit every time.

How to activate it:

Activating SizeFlow is quick and easy:

•            Online: Customers can simply click the "Get Your Ideal Size" button on the product detail page, enter basic information such as height and weight, or choose the video scanning feature for even more precise results.

•            In-Store: Customers can use We Wear's 3D body scanning technology available in select stores to create an accurate avatar of their body. This avatar can then be synced with their online profile for future size recommendations.

•            Omnichannel Flexibility: SizeFlow can be activated from anywhere—whether online or in-store—and remains seamlessly connected across all e-commerce platforms for a continuous and personalized experience.

REMIRA is one of the leading providers of intelligent software solutions for supply chain & omnichannel e-commerce. REMIRA’s mission is to increase their customers’ economic success with AI-supported cloud solutions that cover planning, purchasing, manufacturing, transportation, warehousing, and commerce across the entire value chain.

ShareCloth provides complex cloud solutions for apparel on-demand retail and manufacturing. 

The company introduces digital cloud infrastructure enables direct-to-consumer apparel business to reduce returns and increase customers loyalty in the retail and optimize unpredictable demand and overproduction on the manufacturing site. 

On the venue ShareCloth demonstrating seamless integration into the apparel on-demand e-commerce. 

Swatchbook is a design & software company that develops applications that make you smile. founded in 2017, the company focuses on the development of cloud, desktop & mobile software applications that help integrate the creative community within an organization into the product development process.

swatchbook is the future of materials. A cloud platform that revolutionizes the exploration, visualization & sharing of materials.

Based in Southern California, its founders share a deep passion for good design & workflow, as well as a deep understanding of the challenges in the digital product development process & the future needs of companies in many industries.

Tukatech has been a driving force behind the apparel industry’s technology revolution
for 27 years, with constant momentum toward ground-breaking and sustainable 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. The introduction of the
microfactory/on-demand manufacturing concept over 12 years ago has transformed the
apparel industry with smaller footprints and speed to market.
Tukatech systems have made an enormous impact on the industry for over two
decades, empowering 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.

About Aptos “Engaging Customers Differently”
In an era of virtually limitless choice, sustained competitive advantage only comes to retailers who engage customers differently – by truly understanding who they are, what they want and why they buy.

At Aptos, we too, believe that Engaging Customers Differently™ is critical to our success. We are committed to a deep understanding of each of our clients, to fulfilling their needs with the retail industry’s most comprehensive omni-channel solutions, and to fostering long-term relationships built on tangible value and trust.

More than 1,000 retail brands rely upon our Singular Commerce™ platform to deliver every shopper a personalized, empowered and seamless experience…no matter when, where or how they shop. Learn more: www.aptos.com

Unmade is a powerful cloud-based platform that enables apparel brands to deliver everything from agile customisation and direct-to-consumer ecommerce, to fully on-demand apparel production.

Unmade’s software optimises the entire value chain – from first design to factory floor right through to fulfilment. This enables brands to design & sell clothes before they make them – and do it cost-effectively and at scale, while delivering greater customisation options, faster turnaround –and far greater sustainability.

Launched in 2014, Unmade’ is on a mission to use the power of technology to transform the apparel industry and create a world where clothes are always made to be worn, not wasted.

Forget ready-made clothes, Unmade is about ever-ready production: ‘made-to-wear’ apparel that are designed for individuals – but made for the planet. It’s a powerful antidote to the industry’s traditional ready-made approach – where 30% of clothes routinely head to landfill.

VERISIUM is a rapidly growing startup with its breakthrough innovations that lie at the nexus of Luxury and Technology. VERISIUM develops marketing and traceability platform for brands, which enables them to create a Direct-to-Consumer connection through their products. It is aimed at customer engagement and product authentication and is based on NFC and Blockchain technologies.

VERISIUM enables fashion brands to:

– CONNECT WITH CUSTOMERS across the distribution network.

– PREVENT COUNTERFEITING rather than to fight with it.

– GET ANALYTICS DATA on where, when and which products are scanned.

– CONTROL ALL DISTRIBUTION NETWORK through analyzing the information where your products should be sold and where there are scanning in fact.

– BOOST E-COMMERCE SALES by enabling your customers to check the originality of the products from the internet by themselves.

– CREATE OMNICHANNEL customer experience through the fusion between physical and digital. Communicate with people who scanned the products – and convert them to clients.

Founded in Germany, in 2013 and managed by Martin Semsch and Renate Eder, Vizoo is a team of experts working together with a strong network of partners and suppliers. Its main products, the xTex Scanner, xTex Software and physX platform, are already utilized to create 3D materials all over the world by over 300 companies in the fashion, interior and automotive business.

The virtualization of a physical material sample is a difficult and tedious task. What is commonly used is a flatbed scanner or consumer camera, several 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 software 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.

The newest addition to the Vizoo product portfolio is the physX platform which allows users to assign fabric draping preset to the scanned materials – compatible with various 3D CAD simulation tools; the perfect digital twin in no time. Furthermore, Vizoo provides a care-free material visualization service.

Vuframe offers a market-leading online platform for building innovative views in 3D, Augmented & Virtual Reality – out-of-the-box and without the need of a developer. Explore your fashion the new way!

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. The TAC™ Ecosystem is an award- winning appearance solution that brings product designs to life with digital material representations and consistently shared 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 (Zurich) and Asia (Shanghai) and service centers across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. For further information, please visit www.xrite.com/TAC