Method and apparatus for customizing knitted products

An apparatus for customizing knitted products, the apparatus comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions, the instructions when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• receiving knitting program instructions of basic products uploaded regularly by factories to a cloud-based customization platform, the knitting program instructions of basic products comprising design files of the basic products and knitting programs for making the basic products;
• generating a design file and an order of a new product in response to a customer designing the new product on the cloud-based customization platform based on the basic products and placing the order;
• replacing the design file of the corresponding basic product with the design file of the new product to generate the knitting program for making the new product, and generating a working file executable by a knitting machine;
• sending the order and the working file to an intelligent factory system or manufacturing execution system thereby transmitting the order and the working file to the knitting machine of a corresponding factory;
• and
• producing the new product by using the knitting machine according to the working file.

A non-transitory computer storage medium storing a computer program, the computer program when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving knitting program instructions of basic products uploaded regularly by factories to a cloud-based customization platform, the knitting program instructions of basic products comprising design files of the basic products and knitting programs for making the basic products;
• generating a design file and an order of a new product in response to a customer designing the new product on the cloud-based customization platform based on the basic products and placing the order;
• replacing the design file of the corresponding basic product with the design file of the new product to generate the knitting program for making the new product, and generating a working file executable by a knitting machine;
• sending the order and the working file to an intelligent factory system or manufacturing execution system thereby transmitting the order and the working file to the knitting machine of a corresponding factory;
• and
• producing the new product by using the knitting machine according to the working file.