Social Manufacturing Cloud Service Platform for the Mass Customization in Apparel Industry

Social Manufacturing is a novel manufacturing mode, which can introduced in the apparel industrial and other fashion industries for the mass customization, based on network, 3D fitting mirror and other technologies. In social manufacturing, the consumers are involved fully into the production process by the internet; the manufacturing equipments and the intelligent interactive service terminals (3D fitting mirrors) are online, forming the manufacture and service equipment network; to realize the social manufacturing, a powerful modern logistics system are needed to support the production and E-business. Therefore, the manufacture and service equipment network, mass-customization or mass-rent webs involving a large number of people, and modern logistics network are combined in the social manufacturing platform by using the network, cloud technology, and other technologies. in the near future everyone will need the novel manufacture mode and the traditional enterprises, such as apparel enterprises, will be transformed into the intelligent enterprises which can proactively perceive and respond the personalized demands of the large quantity of consumers, and realize the mass customization by the social manufacture cloud service platform.