Invest BW - Focus on digitalization and AI

Process chain in the TexScan project

In the second mission-oriented funding round of Invest BW, the largest single-company funding program in the history of Baden-Württemberg, the DITF is participating with three projects. The focus in this round is on projects in the field of digitalization and artificial intelligence. The DITF started the following projects here:  

Project AutoCut
Project partner: erler gmbh

Development of a fully automated textile cutting and sorting system for the apparel industry. Development of a service-oriented production system that reliably recognizes fabric textures, creates layer patterns, optimizes cutting parameters and determines gripper coordinates for the textile gripper. Additional further development of the gripper and handling kinematics for previously non-grippable, flexurally limp textile qualities.

Project DigiFlamm
Project partner: diemietwaesche.de gmbh + co. kg

Development of a non-destructive test method for protective clothing against heat and flames. Verification of the protective effect in the regular process of cleaning and reprocessing; use of AI models for the classification of the quality with a few significant key figures.

Project TexScan
Project partners: BRÜCKNER Trockentechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Detagto GmbH, Hahn-Schickard

Development of a novel textile scanner for the acquisition of textile properties for process control in the stenter frame. Integration of various sensor data to determine textile properties such as weight, op- tic, light transmission, thickness, topography, water retention capacity, heating time for predicting textile processes such as thermal treatment.