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A short video of what Fashion Research Institute is doing with IBM in Second Life

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today announced it has signed a multi-million IBM
Global Business Services agreement with the Fashion Research
Institute (FRI) to implement a first-of-a-kind Virtual World Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) Enterprise System.
FRI's mission is to reduce the carbon footprint and
change the environmental impact of the industry in ways that are
sustainable, replicable, respectful of the practitioners, and
meaningful for all stakeholders.
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As well as traditional engineering applications, there was much emphasis on the company taking its PLM strategies into new areas, particularly consumer products and apparel. Joel Lemke made the pointed that whereas the “Cycle time of an engineering change in aerospace can be up to 12 months, and is perhaps typically 30 days”, 30 days to implement changes in design in the fashion industry would lose them, “The entire season”. Mike Feliton, VP of IT Systems Development at Warnaco, which owns Calvin Klein and Speedo among other brands, talked a little about his particular implementation, which they undertook to, “Improve forecasting, planning and logistics”, and which they rolled out across the entire company in a year.