Bayse Brand makes more than 100 tech packs every month with AI Tech Packs.
The Australian brand is sold through retailers including Nordstrom and David Jones.
Minming Zhou, Bayse's Head of Design, shared how her team uses AI Tech Packs to take a design through to the documents for its first prototype.
1. Make changes to the design
Before AI Tech Packs, the team reviewed designs in Adobe, then put together their design and tech packs.
Now they use AI editing to change the designs and create realistic images to show their creative director. Those images also help suppliers understand what the team wants to make.
2. Set up the measurements with automatic POMs
For Minming, automatic points of measure, or POMs, are a standout part of AI Tech Packs. These mark the places on a garment that need to be measured.
“I think creating POMs was one of the most time-consuming and frustrating parts of the process for designers, so having them generated automatically has been a huge time-saver.”
— Minming Zhou, Head of Design, Bayse Brand
She uses the suggested POMs to map out measurements on the technical drawing. When she edits the AI-generated product image, the linked drawing keeps the same scale, making it easier to place the measurement points and make changes as the design develops.
The designers then check the measurements and add any extra measurements and construction details their pattern maker needs.
The example below shows this part of the workflow in AI Tech Packs using its sample hoodie. The drawing sits beside the measurement list, so a designer can review the placement and value together. Each letter connects a line on the garment to a measurement, such as body length or pocket height.
Example: POMs and sample measurements in AI Tech Packs.
3. Export into Bayse's custom Excel format
The team prepares the tech pack in AI Tech Packs, then exports it into a custom Excel workbook developed for Bayse. It brings together materials, construction details, technical drawings and measurements in a format they can use with their vendors.
Bayse adopted this workbook for the first prototypes. Minming says its cleaner, more structured layout makes it easier for the team to work with the document.
As sampling progresses, Bayse uses its own Excel comment templates to send feedback to factories and work through changes.
Here is the same sample hoodie in AI Tech Packs' Excel viewer. The measurement sheet shows values across S, M and L, alongside tolerances and grade rules. The workbook also has separate sheets for materials, construction and the flat sketch.
Example: AI Tech Packs' Excel workbook.
Less time preparing tech packs, more time designing
For Bayse, AI Tech Packs helps with the work between developing a design and getting the details ready for a prototype. Minming puts it simply:
“This has significantly shortened the overall process and freed up more time for the team to focus on the creative aspects of design.”
— Minming Zhou, Head of Design, Bayse Brand
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