Software aids body armour design

Armorsmith has signed a two-year subscription agreement to Zweave's Zdesign to manage product development data associated with the research, development, and manufacture of lightweight body armor.

Zweave will provide services to Armorsmith, a leading provider of next generation body armor.

Armorsmith has signed a two-year subscription agreement to Zweave's Zdesign to manage product development data associated with the research, development, and manufacture of lightweight body armour solutions for military and civilian police.

With a focus on human factors in the product lifecycle and defence industry specific features, Zweave's on-demand design automation solutions support the collaborative product jifecycle management of clothing and individual equipment items.

Zdesign is a comprehensive, integrated suite of collaborative design studios in which creative and sourcing teams come together to manage all aspects of product development.

"After spending twenty years in product development with inefficient tools and processes to support colour, fit, design, trend research, merchandising, sampling and sourcing, our team of product development and technology experts have created the tools we have always wanted for design and product development activities", says McCann, an Apparel Industry Product Development Veteran and the President and Founder of Zweave.

"We have received seven Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from the US Department of defence to develop clothing and equipment design automation solutions to support the defence acquisition community".

"After five years of government funded RandD, we are launching Zdesign and Fit Studio our first products for the Consumer Products Markets in May 2007 with our partner OptiTex usa".

"Armorsmith required a system that would support both male and female 3D data from medical imaging, full body scans, landmarks, 3D fit, pattern making, and portfolio management" said Alex Gallo, President of Armorsmith.

"Zdesign lets us replace manual product data management systems with an integrated and automated solution that supports versioning, change control and secure collaboration with our internal and external partners in the defence industry".

"Zdesign supports our requirements for managing complex anthropometric and human factors information together with pattern making, grading and 3D CAD solutions from OptiTex while supporting our workflow and business processes to guarantee Armorsmith's solutions reach our troops on the battlefield today and not in ten years".

"Our partnership with Zweave has allowed us to integrate OptiTex' 2D and 3D design tools with Zweave's Fit Studio, enabling Armorsmith's design team to maximise product development efficiencies through the use of anthropometric virtual models, custom patterns and fit workspaces" said Yoram Burg, President of OptiTex USA.

"The Warfighter depends on the fit of their body armour and our tools combined with Zweave's PLM approach to managing fit data will save lives".

"The adoption of Zdesign by Armorsmith further validates Zweave's on-demand design automation solutions as a highly attractive alternative to expensive, risky, and cumbersome, non-apparel-specific PLM client-server applications", said David Buck, CEO of Zweave".

"For the first time, Zweave is offering access to apparel focused, web-based product jifecycle management software as an ASP with a yearly subscription fee instead of as an enterprise solution necessitating expensive software license fees".

"Our approach makes it possible for small and medium-size companies on the cutting edge of product design, whether fashion or defence focused, to minimise their internal IT resource obligations".

"We lower their overall costs, reduce the implementation complexity and speed up the time to launch, while providing access to cutting edge software".

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