Welcome to New Industrial Order laboratory. Our lab is set up to develop and test design, manufacturing, delivery, re-use and recycling in the on demand manufacturing system.
Virtual knitwear
Digital design saves energy and materials. The N.I.O. Knitwear Development Process aims to use virtual knitwear to
bring forth the highest quality 3D knitwear
save energy, materials and knit programming time
and reduce the number of physical samples made in the design phase
while providing ample space for experimentation in the creative process.
High quality visualizations of virtual knitwear help to optimize the collaboration between designers, product developers, knitwear labs and knitting manufacturers.
Design for personalisation
What is the role of designers when the consumer influences the production process? We try out interaction, co-creation and play with curated design options to find out what consumers wish to personalize and how they want to be guided by designers.
Digital tailoring
How to produce a great fitting garment for a unique individual? The N.I.O. Digital Tailoring System is being development specifically for knitted garments. A comment we often hear is ‘Knitwear doesn’t need to fit that well because it stretches!’. In our experience, ill-fitting knitwear (sleeves to short, bottom exposed when bending down, neck to narrow, etc) can be a mayor source of frustration and a reason to never wear such an item. Most people prefer a made-to-measure garment once they have had the privilege to try it. At New Industrial Order we believe that progress is inevitable, in every aspect of humanity, and that the quality standards set by tailoring and couture will some day be available for everybody. Why not start now?
Remote sizing and virtual fitting
The value of the good old measuring tape is undisputed, but the new era asks for more sophisticated ways to extract body measurements from a person. Clever people and innovative companies around the world are working on this topic. New Industrial Order reaches out to researchers and startups everywhere to find the best solutions for remote sizing. There are many ways: from 3D scanning in a scan booth to algorithms calculating your body dimensions based on a picture you take with your smartphone. Based on this information, brands can send the right size to a consumer, or produce a made-to-measure garment.
The next challenge is to create a realtime virtual fitting process that helps consumers find the size and fit they want, acknowledging that there not only the dressmakers’ idea of a perfect fit should be considered, but also a person’s ‘emotional fit’.
On Demand Order System
How to produce knitwear from 1 piece quantity on a large scale? The On Demand Order System (ODOS®) combines sizing, knit programming and manufacturing and connects it to the Knitcloud platform.
Knit manufacturing
Knitting is the future and this is no secret to the knitting industry itself. A number of large innovative companies already provide knitting machines that can truly function as ‘knit robots’ in an on-demand supply chain. Knitwear manufacturers around the world are investing in these new machines. The only thing stopping them from providing knitwear from 1 piece is the lack of infrastructure to make production on demand efficient enough to fit into the manufacturing business model.
New Industrial Order works with Shima Seiki, inventor of Wholegarment technology and with two of the best manufacturers of luxury knitwear in Europe. A pilot with Stoll’s Knit & Wear is under development.
Open Source Knitcode Lab
Connecting design ideas to 3D knitting machines around the world, that’s the idea. To make this efficient we are building a library filled with knitwear building blocks that are connected to pieces of knit-able machine code: Knitcode. Designers and brands will be able to download the knitwear building blocks in Clo3D, play with them and create their own signature styles.