CRLMM applied to an automated apparel manufacturing process
With an automated planning and scheduling system, not an advanced planning and scheduling system, Amazon has brought apparel manufacturing closer to the consumer.
Artificial intelligence will boost existing processes. In this section, an RL-DL-CRLMM system will optimize an apparel manufacturing process.
An apparel manufacturing process
Amazon's apparel manufacturing patent can be summarized as follows:
- P1: Grouping apparel customer orders by products and sizes. This process has been around since the origins of industrial apparel manufacturing centuries ago.
- P2: Automatically cutting lays. A lay is a stack of pieces of cloth. It is like cutting a circle in a stack (lay) of several pieces of paper at the same time.
- P3: Moving the packs of the parts of clothing to the assembly lines on conveyor belts (see Chapter 10, Conceptual Representation Learning).
- P4: Other operations depending...