Investing in Resilience, Designing for Innovation: Why Taiwan-Based Manufacturer Makalot Bets on Vizoo Material Digitization Solutions for Digital Product Creation

Faster Product Development

KPI: Time from concept to final product

Elly shares that their team is more equipped to respond to market demands more quickly as DPC allows for a shorter product development cycle.  Being able to design, test, and refine on digital platforms significantly reduces the time from concept to final product.

She continues: “Traditional development cycles require multiple physical samples and adjustments, whereas DPC allows us to quickly iterate in a virtual environment, greatly enhancing efficiency.”

Cost Reduction

KPI: Percentage of material and production costs reduction vs. standard process & Amount of transportation and storage savings

The Makalot DPC team is equipped to design and validate samples in a digital environment, reducing their reliance on physical samples. This not only lowers material and production costs but also saves on transportation and storage expenses. The reduced number of physical samples needed allows them to use their budget and resources more effectively.

Efficient Client Communication

KPI: Speed of Turnaround Cycles + Revision Count

One of DPC’s advantages for her team, Elly shares, is the ability to present and adjust design concepts to clients more easily, fostering better communication with their clients, providing a better customer experience, and eventually leading to higher customer satisfaction.

“DPC enables us to respond to customer needs more quickly, providing more precise and customized design solutions. Through virtual try-ons and interactive displays, we can present design concepts more intuitively and make adjustments based on customer feedback in a timely manner, greatly enhancing customer satisfaction and trust.”

Improved Product Quality

KPI: Rework Rate

Elly shares that DPC technologies also helped improve design and manufacturing accuracy. Because their teams now work with highly accurate design and simulation tools, they can make detailed checks and improvements at every stage of product development.

“This ensures the final product’s quality and consistency, reducing rework and losses caused by design errors.”

Compelling Marketing

KPI: Leads generated outside the traditional funnel

Marketing efforts from the team at Makalot leverage DPC’s virtual showcasing capabilities to attract more customers and increase brand exposure through virtual try-ons and interactive displays.

Stakeholder Alignment

Before any product creation is done, the team at Makalot tries to confirm the purpose of DPC by aligning with their stakeholders on requirements and expectations. This makes a huge difference and increases their efficiency.

Setting Quality Implementation Standards

With the objective of balancing speed and perfection, it is crucial to define corresponding quality and completion standards based on the different needs of each development stage.

Workflow Design

With information acquired from the previous steps, the team is able to make early decisions and create a suitably structured workflow:

Prioritization: digitization of patterns, avatars, materials, and trims

Decision: between standardized processes or customized processes based on DPC asset production needs

1. Standardized processes:
   • Adopted when trying to achieve a stable output for large demands hence maximizing manpower efficiency.
   • Uses an assembly line production model, dividing operations into stages such as sewing, fitting, detailing, recoloring, and rendering, and achieves stable output for large demands.
2. Customized processes:
   • Used when a high degree of consistency is required between digital samples and physical products

Material Creation

Fabric Creation: To ensure the best quality of fabric representation, the team goes through three phases:

1. Detailed scanning with the Vizoo xTex Hardware to capture the texture, color, and details

   

    

2. Processing the data using the Vizoo xTex Software to ensure the various characteristics of the fabric are accurately reproduced in the digital environment.

3. Physical property testing: to validate the weight, thickness, bending, and stretching of the fabric to ensure high consistency between digital and physical fabrics via instruments provided by 3D software vendors.

   

Trim Material Creation:

1. Software modeling for trims such as buttons, zippers, decorations, etc
2. Testing to ensure realistic representation using 3D software, the team verifies the models, looking at material, color, and shape and making sure it matches the actual effect and function of the physical trims

Prototyping

Putting together all the elements required to build the initial design

Internal Collaboration

The team takes advantage of DPC to enhance their cross-departmental collaboration through sharing data and feedback in real-time on the same platform. This shortens feedback loops and reduces errors during the prototype and design stages.

External Collaboration & Finalization

Fast feedback gathering can also be adopted for client review initiatives. The team collaborates with brand partners throughout the DPC journey: Reviewing proto sample proportions Selecting and finalizing colors in color samples Conducting consumer feedback testing with CST (Crowdsourcing Testing) samples Optimizing fit samples Retaining TOP samples for mass production.