The U.S. Air Force's IDEF methodology and IDEFine® software have been selected for developing an apparel manufacturing architecture based on the evaluation criteria proposed in Part I. The apparel enterprise has been modeled in close collaboration with a major apparel manufacturer. The resulting as is function model has been refined to yield the to be function model, and the details of the to be architecture are discussed.
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