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, a DQN-CRLMM will optimize an apparel manufacturing process.
An apparel manufacturing process
Amazon's apparel manufacturing patent can be summed up as follows:
- P1: Grouping apparel customer orders by products and sizes. This process is around since the origins of industrial apparel manufacturing centuries ago.
- P2: Automatically cutting lays (such as cutting a circle in 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 11, Conceptual Representation Learning).
- P4: Other operations depending on the products (packaging or printing or other).
- P5: Storing and optimizing the distribution process through warehouses and deliveries...