MYWEAR

"Customized Green, Safe, Healthy and Smart Work and Sports Wear"

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The MY Wear project will develop a new generation of customised, green, safe, healthy and smart work wear and sport wear products for elderly, obese, diabetics and disabled. Therefore a specific reference framework will be set up based on an innovative data integration platform gathering consumers data, during both products orders and usage, for customisation and extended services providing comfort, safety and health related functionalities to the addressed target groups. Moreover, high tech solutions for the production processes of both smart textiles and customised footwear will be developed in the MY Wear project. Particularly a textile intrinsic communication layer will be designed and developed to provide garments and shoes sensing and monitoring capabilities. Furthermore, adaptive footwear production processes will be developed, based on advanced CAD-CAM tools and flexible robot cells and sole injection solutions, for the manufacturing of personalised shoes. New high performing and recyclable components for safe and healthy sport and work wear will be developed, as well as LCA and eco-design tools for the development of green consumer products.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

New highly flexible production methodologies and processes to customize safety shoes, work wear and sportswear for elderly, diabetic, overweight and lower able people. Development of new integrated sensors and software systems able to monitor interactively health parameters at work and during sports activities

Descrizione progetto (Article)

European manufacturers have advanced new approaches to serve changing markets. Innovation was necessary due to growing environmental awareness and various social phenomena. These phenomena include ageing, an increase in obesity and an increase in sensitivity towards disabled people.

The EU-funded http://www.mywearproject.info/ (MYWEAR) (Customized green, safe, healthy and smart work and sports wear) project investigated these new market needs and potential solutions. Specifically, scientists researched high-tech production processes, smart textiles, and personalised green clothing and footwear.

Initial efforts focused on creating a platform to gather client data as a basis for customer-driven production. The platform integrated information from a wide range of health and biometric sensors within clothing products.

These sensors were contained in a textile intrinsic communication layer using textile-based circuitry. For this part of the project, the team had to balance technical performance, technological constraints and environmental aspects.

Other work was dedicated to better usage of light, biodegradable textiles in sports and work garments. For example, researchers investigated new polymeric materials for protective inserts and customised shoe soles.

In order to produce these smart, eco-friendly materials, MYWEAR developed new production systems and processes. The processes had to adapt to customer requirements, and innovative automated manufacturing approaches continue to be explored.

Ongoing research in this area is available on the project website and on the http://www.mckn.eu/projects/mywear/ (Mass Customization Knowledge Network) site. MYWEAR has completed its mission to sustain the development of a new generation of work clothing and sportswear goods.