systems to boost apparel industry productivity
Human Solutions GmbH, headquartered at Kaiserslautern in Germany, was founded in 2002. Dr. Eng. Andreas Seidl is its Chief Executive Officer.
The strategic background of all the innovations of the Human Solutions Group is based on “Your business first”. It means that Human Solutions orients its technologies to the needs of the industry, helping customers reduce costs, shorten lead times and improve quality.
The Human Solutions Group consists of Human Solutions GmbH, Assyst GmbH, AVM Solutions GmbH and its foreign subsidiaries, Human Solutions d/b/a Assyst and Sistemi Assyst srl. With around 200 employees at locations in Germany, Italy and the US and partners in 50 countries, the group is active worldwide in all major manufacturing and supply markets in the apparel industry. The company operates on a worldwide basis with other leading firms which are keen on increasing their working potential and efficiency. The central theme of the group is size and fit optimization and increasing productivity and efficiency, enabling the apparel industry to reduce its time-to-market and costs.
The group’s unique technology portfolio meets all the requirements of the apparel industry for product development (CAD and 3D, body dimensions), management (PLM, ERP), production (piece placement and order optimization) and for the retail trade (bodyscanning and customized clothing).
Human Solutions GmbH is a 
market leader in bodyscanning. It offers body dimension data and ergonomics simulation in CAD for size and fit optimization in the apparel industry. It has the world’s largest representative database for body dimension data. The company’s flagship products are iSize for size and fit optimization and avatar generation, 3D bodyscanners for the contact-free and lightning-fast taking of measurements, Anthroscan for taking serial measurements and Intailor for computer-supported customized clothing.
Assyst GmbH, a market leader for fashion technology, offers integrated CAD and PLM solutions for efficient collection development in the world of fashion. Assyst is known for its innovations in automation, 3D visualization, process design and data management. Its flagship products are Cad.Assyst, Vidya, PLM GoLive and Automarker and Autocost.
AVM Solutions GmbH is an established ERP specialist, offering merchandise management and integrated management systems that reduce cycle times in the apparel industry. Two important innovations of AVM Solutions for the fashion sector are SAM, the AVM mobile sales system and the seamless linking of PLM with ERP, which in turn closely interlinks development with production. The company’s flagship product is BOS.
The Human Solutions Group has more than 300 fashion customers, including leading companies like Adidas, Ahlers, Erfo, Hugo Boss, Löffler, Maier Sports, Max Mara, Takko, Vaude and Walbusch. One of the main factors behind its growing reputation in Germany is the serial measurement program SizeGERMANY, which was initiated and carried out jointly with the Hohenstein Institute. Around 14,000 men, women and children were measured during this program. The company is currently carrying out another countrywide survey, SizeITALY, and is also implementing innovative projects with selected customers in product development in 3D and 3D visualization.
The group has significant relationship with its Indian customers like Naveena Creations, Peppsi Garments, Nevedha Knits, CBC Fashions, Lovable Lingerie, Eleghant Auto, Sharda Motors, VTX Vijayeswari Textiles, General Motors Technical Centre and the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI).
Vidya
Vidya 20.13, the leading 3D simulation software by Assyst comes with an extensive population of scanatars, animations and fashion manikins. Fabric textures, images and applications can be directly integrated into a running simulation. Vidya also images glossy structures, partial gloss and iridescent effects, crease effects and tone-on-tone patterns. It is also the only 3D system that can be seamlessly integrated into the fashion process. The quality of the simulation program is based on the realistic interaction of human beings, materials and cuts.
The software uses original cut data from CAD and the representative body sizes and 
shapes from serial measurement surveys. It also provides a high degree of authenticity in material imagery and behaviour. Around two-thirds of all apparel models can be optimally simulated today in Vidya.
Project SIZE INDIA
A nation-wide large body sizing survey, supported by the Department of Heavy Industries of the Government of India, was released in 2009-2010. The project “SIZE INDIA” was launched to measure the body size of Indian population. It was concluded in December 2010. It is very important to use correct body size data of population. For example, one cannot use the anthropometric data of US population while designing a product to be sold in the Indian market. This will be a miss-fit.
The findings of the survey done by ARAI are very helpful for the apparel industry. The software, which was used for scanning, is a product of the Human Solutions Group.