Patent ID: 11899435
Assignee: THE NORTH FACE APPAREL CORP.
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  D  A  Y | IPC D  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for color control, the method comprising:
receiving article data comprising information associated with a consumer order of an article, wherein the article data comprises at least color information associated with a design color of at least a portion of the article;
receiving data indicative of one or more characteristics of a substrate for use in forming the article;
selecting, based on the article data and the data indicative of one or more characteristics of the substrate, a chemical profile or a finishing process, further comprising:
performing a first article management process of a plurality of article management processes to output a first stage article associated with the article;
capturing, using an inline spectrophotometer, color data associated with the first stage article;
comparing, based on the article data, the color data to the color information, wherein the color information comprises an expected color; and
executing a remediation based at least on the comparing the color data to the expected color, further comprising:
determining a new color to associate with the expected color;
updating a library of addressable colors with the new color; and
causing a new project request to be created using the updated library of addressable colors; and

forming at least a portion of the article using the selected chemical profile or finishing process, or both, wherein the formed article exhibits a color that is within a predetermined tolerance of the design color.