Hear Prof Stephen Russell speak at the Northern Clothing and Textile Network event being held at the Northern Design Centre in Gateshead. Other speakers include designer Nigel Cabourn and Hayley Smith (Craft Yourself Silly), and Simon Bourne (The Hand-Dyed Show Company).
Future Fashion Factory is a 5 year long, £5.4m project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) initiative. This is an industry-led project focused on applying, co-developing and implementing new textile and industrial digital technologies (IDTs) in collaboration with supply chain manufacturers and other...
UK businesses using data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are realising significant benefits in terms of better decision-making and a deeper understanding of customer wants and needs, cost reduction, increasing efficiency, revenue growth, maximising sell-through as well as reduced lead times. But many businesses still question how they might practically use AI in their own...
The Future Fashion Factory is a new industry-led, collaborative R&D programme linking UK-based design, manufacturing and retail. The Programme is developing advanced digital and textile technologies aimed at transforming the UK industry’s agility, and ability to shift to circular economies. Its key mission is to facilitate designing the right product for the right customer at...