(Editor’s Note: Originally published in AuManufacturing, the article highlights one of Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers, 3D scanning manufacturer for the apparel sector, Bodd.)

In a back street off trendy Chapel Street Prahran in Melbourne what looks like a warehouse converted to a town house is the unlikely home of a trailblazer in the introduction of technology into the millennia old apparel business.

3D body scanning and data insights company Bodd’s offices are dominated by the company’s flagship whole body scanner which uses multiple lenses, sensors and software to collect large amounts of body data from any individual.