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Modelling and Analysing Product Development Processes in the Textile and Clothing Industry

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Innovations in Industrial Engineering II (icieng 2022)

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The textile and clothing industry is one of the most important sectors in the Portuguese economy, operating in a market that is increasingly competitive, globalized and characterized by short lifecycles and consumer volatility. This leads to an increased need for agility and speed by manufacturers, in order to respond to the market demands. Thus, it becomes important to companies in the sector to understand and diagnose its product development processes in order to identify opportunities for improvement, potentially changing the organisation conventional routines This work adopted a case study research strategy to critically analyse and discuss the product development process of a major player in the fashion retail sector. For that goal, processes were mapped using business process modelling tools such as Business Process Model and Notation, highlighting the problems and opportunities in the development of new products in the textile and clothing industry, and providing context for the consideration of new measures to enhance its efficiency.

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This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the R&D Units Project Scope: UIDB/00319/2020.

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  1. Master’s in Industrial Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal

    Inês Xavier Fernandes

  2. Centre ALGORITMI, Department of Information Systems, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal

    Filipe de Sá-Soares

  3. Centre ALGORITMI, Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal

    Anabela Tereso

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    José Machado

  2. Department of Industrial Electronics, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Filomena Soares

  3. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland

    Justyna Trojanowska

  4. Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine

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  5. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland

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  6. School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Bei**g, China

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  7. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Waranga, Hanamkonda, India

    Vijaya Kumar Manupati

  8. Faculty of Industrial Engineering, University of Vigo, Galicia, Pontevedra, Spain

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Fernandes, I.X., de Sá-Soares, F., Tereso, A. (2023). Modelling and Analysing Product Development Processes in the Textile and Clothing Industry. In: Machado, J., et al. Innovations in Industrial Engineering II. icieng 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09360-9_19

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