Can Robots Transform the Garment Industry?

Engineers at SoftWear Automation in Atlanta are working on one of the trickiest manufacturing processes to automate: Sewing. Photo: Melissa Golden for The Wall Street Journal
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[@rajmohan9587]

supper good

[@user-zk7kz9ei4b]

Good idea

[@harshakotyan926]

nice sir

[@CaptTerrific]

Remarkable

[@haridashari3556]

Super

[@williamhuang5329]

Hanzhen harmonic drive gear , strain wave reducer, robot joint , over 30 years experience

[@OffGridInvestor]

Their "ASM" is just a walking foot machine that has electronics added. Probably just an arduino system.

[@sewnice9752]

This idea is great!!! for me, 50% human, 50% robots will do. I have a garment-making workshop. My problems which i believe most of employer also face are:- there are a lot of Human Error, delayed production and other human-related problems which apparently causing loss and increase cost expenses. Having these sewbot may solve some of those problems. Regardless of the unemployment issue, future generation needs evolvement and adaptation towards thing kind of "IR 4.0", "internet of things" ,"automation" and so on.

[@rajmohan9587]

I have some ideas.i want to make few automatic machine for garment but I have no money .if i have money or help I will done.

[@lionsnetonu]

If the process gets automated your little garment making workshop will become part of history which nobody will ever know of.

[@giovannicurzi1718]

automation means progress one should not be scared of progress . The thing is to understand the costs of spare parts .... especially for jeans manufacturing the machines brake up easily .. My interest is to see a whole production chain operating through this system .

[@OffGridInvestor]

I have a machine that is 50 years old that can do stitches half a millimeter in length. Here they are saying this setup can't make a full garment and in the recommended views I see a robot making a full shirt.

[@melissariley8585]

While the robot picks up and moves the t-shirt to the sewing machine to get stitched, is the sewing machine automatically turned on by the robot (meaning, is it connected in any way to the robot) or does a human have to manually use a foot pedal on the sewing machine for this process to work?

[@sazidali9299]

I want to purches this machine..pls tell me machine price

[@bowtiehouse9749]

How to find this guys? I need to order some machines from them. Please help.

[@soroushasarzadeh4129]

How does it pick up and move the fabric on the table? Vacuum gripper?

[@vinaybhat7670]

i think its Bernoulli Gripper.... its different from vacuum one.....its usually used to hold porous things,,,,

[@mudasseerahmed9522]

Vinyas Bhat hi

[@sajjadalirajan1999]

We would like to setup an robotics garments manufacturing units. Please inbox me all details ASAP.

[@jeniusnetful]

como me contacto con ustedes para mas informacion

[@pointcodding]

We need new updates people doesn't want work in this sector we need machines to sewing

[@arush498]

Whats the price of the machine

[@inspireme7733]

What is price of sewbot?

[@machinerytraders6484]

🥀

[@powertrip5956]

I have worked in the garment industry all my life as a development engineer and know you cannot completely automate certain fabrics such as knitwear lycra single Jersey these types of fabrics have to much stretch and curl. I have worked on all these fabrics and more. I have also worked on most types of sewing machines. manfactures will not invest in this automation as most operations are much to slow in this day and age customers want a quick turn round so i suggest you save your money

[@ignyoh]

Also I dont think it will work very well wilk slipery thin fabrics such as shiffong, charmuse, and the likes.

[@vijak752]

You are night but thick about labour like Our Indian unemployment are full Field by textile sector if this going to emerge in after 10 years I can say Most of business will work in money earning

[@aleksandersuur9475]

Machine handling squishy things is indeed hard, often too hard. Hard is not impossible tho, sooner or later someone will figure out how to do it.

[@jeanstran]

never say never

[@juancarlosmartinez1718]

Yet they are doing it and will soon disrupt a whole industry. #THINKFORWARD #FASHIONISOUTOFFASHION

[@DaveyJonesLockerwithJazzy]

Robotic automation is to be considered to optimise company adaptability, scalability, safety, quality, profitability.. not all process will benefit from robotic automation.. low volume, low value, bespoke operations won't benefit.. however, high volume, repeatable, high-value operations will benefit from robotic automation investment for the business' future and wellbeing in the garment, fabric, textile industries. What about staff & labour? They benefit from operational/process manufacturing experience, production upskill, gaining valuable marketable skills understanding diagnosing (fault-finding); optimal safety; operating, adjusting, maintaining, QC products and machines. Such empowerment creates wealth, through specialty, competitiveness, and career progression, toward self-enterprise. Such a manufacturing (Smart Factory) environment will start to attract young people into the industry sectors away from other advanced manufacturing sectors, providing valuable resource economically with little effort. Same for market, scaleble operations enable adaptation to [export-competitive] market conditions & evolution, enabling optimal competitiveness whilst confidently maintaining health & safety compliance.

[@jeniusnetful]

buenas tardes que otro tipos de maquinas tienen no hablo ingles

[@debate2787]

Is it still work now?

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

I think nations developing towards manufacturing need this without the skill, without the manpower/strength in numbers. Compare and contrast.💱💰

[@REEVOTIC]

aw and i thought i alone had that idea

[@sidharthvishnu]

Likewise

[@REEVOTIC]

...........................................likewise.

[@comprehendnature2404]

Many have similar idea. Unless someone takes a step and make it a reality, it will remain an idea. Only an idea without development and finding out if it will work is nothing.

[@ranarazwan2317]

Hi brother

[@OffGridInvestor]

It's not that hard. Dragging cloth will cause it to flatten. I have seen compressed air used as standard on juki industrial machines to flatten cloth too. And if you think edging bath mats is hard then you are truly stupid. Coz there's this thing called a hemlock foot. And for 2 bucks I got another thing called a magnetic seam guide and my 1960s pfaff has a screw in one.

[@atlantisfunktions]

IM A GLO MAN I DONT NEED A GARMET

[@mouvementebr3575]

for those who don't understand that technoligical unemployment is a good thing look at different kind of society where robots free you from work and gives is abundance of goods for free THE VENUS PROJECT

[@kondareddykunta4406]

Kp రెడ్డి గారు మిషనరీ ధర ఎంత ఉంటుంది చెప్పగలరా? KPREDDY GARU HOW MUCH PRICE MACHINE SIR

[@piratenu1]

There are no robots here

[@marcofitz2483]

thank you for more unemployment for Asia

[@rgf918]

It will ruin the economy of textile dependent under developed countries e.g. Bangladaesh,India

[@comprehendnature2404]

It will take very long for this machine to be fully developed, ready for market and get sold. By the time it is on market, the countries that depend on garment will already have shifted industries.

[@vijayrevoor2989]

Already we are facing business slowdown, job cuttings. These kind of automation going ruin the life of poor people.

[@abbasannooz3286]

this will not work

[@Nemo_Anom]

basic income for all.

[@cookey3855]

Answering your question in one word is easy, no.

[@abdullatifkhan4518]

What a joke..

[@krishnenduray1758]

dont u feel gulity ,u will be stripping million people from basic job like knitting ,what is wrong with you ,use your knowledge to develop something which will help man kind .hope god teaches u a lesson .

[@jonh537]

lol that’s so slow

[@powertrip5956]

I have worked in the garment industry all my life as a development engineer and know you cannot completely automate certain fabrics such as knitwear lycra single Jersey these types of fabrics have to much stretch and curl. I have worked on all these fabrics and more. I have also worked on most types of sewing machines. manfactures will not invest in this automation as most operations are much to slow in this day and age customers want a quick turn round so i suggest you save your money