Swiss retail technology company meepl, a ‘3D smartphone body scanning clothes shopping companion’, has partnered with Stoll the leading flat knitting machine manufacturer, to offer bespoke made-to-measure knitwear for the fashion industry on a global scale.

Coupling meepl’s 3D body scanning app with Stoll’s knit and wear innovative technology will provide a customer-centric solution to the historical issues surrounding customised clothing production. It will allow knitwear to be customised on an automated and scalable level, using meepl’s highly accurate measurements fed straight into the knitelligence software controlling Stoll’s machines.

The knitwear industry has previously struggled with inefficiencies with made-to-measure sizing, relying on manual methods of measuring and human input, which is prone to error, meeple says. According to the company, meepl’s smartphone-enabled 3D body scanning technology uses body reconstruction algorithms to produce an almost 100% accurate body image from just two pictures, instantly obtaining up to 100 measurements of the body.

With meepl’s easy-to-use and accurate body scanning technology the consumer’s personal body measurements can easily be connected to our knitelligence platform. The platform automatically adjusts the knitting pattern based on the body measurements being provided making it possible to knit tailored garments in a very short time without any manual intervention. For the first time ever, this combination of technologies makes it possible to offer mass customisation for everyone from the convenience of their homes.