New Product Development

[TC]² is pleased to work with new ventures and established firms to assist them with their product development efforts. [TC]²’s product development team provides assistance with key phases of the new product development process including:

• Refinement of product concept
• Material selection and identification
• Technical product design including patternmaking, grading, and sloper/block development
• Analysis of sizing strategies using SizeUSA data
• 3D body shape visualization
• Prototype construction and evaluation
• Product engineering including specification of sewing operations and construction methods
• Product costing
• Digital textile printing (click here to learn more about this service)

 

Sizing Analysis

Using the SizeUSA database as a resource for comparison, [TC]²’s product development team supports companies evaluating current sizing strategies and will query the database using key body measurements within the grading strategy to determine information such as:

• How do key body measurements for an existing size range correlate to actual body measurements in chosen demographic categories?
• In what ways do measurements combinations correlate to actual measurement combinations in chosen demographic categories?
• Does analysis of measurement distributions within chosen demographic categories suggest increased selling opportunities through modification of key measurement specifications or expanded size range?

 

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