International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
Table 1 Three prime goals addressed by the examples
Technology | Examples | Prime Goals | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Personalization | Environmental sustainability | Productivity | ||
Robotics/intelligent manufacturing | Sewing robots | \(\downarrow\) Production time \(\uparrow\) Efficiency | ||
Warehouse robots | ||||
Smart factory | ✓ | |||
3D Printing/3D knitting | Adidas | ✓ | \(\downarrow\) Production time \(\uparrow\) Efficiency | |
Nike | ✓ | |||
Tailored Industry | ✓ | |||
Ministry of Supply | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Son of a Tailor | ✓ | ✓ | ||
22 Factor | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Virtual/augmented reality | Gap’s Dressing Room | ✓ | \(\downarrow\) Decision-making time \(\uparrow\) Convenience | |
Metail | ✓ | ✓ | ||
EchoShot by Metail | ✓ | |||
MemoMi | ✓ | |||
Feetz | ✓ | |||
Prevolve | ✓ | |||
Big data analytics/ AI | Stitch fix | ✓ | \(\downarrow\) Decision-making time \(\uparrow\) Accuracy and Convenience | |
True fit | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Anomali | ✓ | |||
Business model innovation | Indochino | ✓ | \(\downarrow\) Decision-making time \(\uparrow\) Convenience | |
Rent the runway | ✓ | |||
The RealReal | ✓ | |||
Joor | ✓ | |||