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Softwear Automation has launched a new automated industrial sewing system. The next generation of its Lowry Sewbot is now available worldwide.
The company says the new system includes features such as fully automated loading, flaw detection, sewing, seaming, cutting, labeling and re-stacking all enabled by revolutionary machine vision technology. [Read more…] about Softwear launches new automated industrial sewing system with machine vision
SoftWear Automation has announced the newest SEWBOT workline is available for global pre-order. The Digital Footwear Upper Workline expands the patented SEWBOT Pick-Place-Sew automation for fully-automated shoe uppers.
In 2017, the SoftWear Automation team went to Waalwijk, Netherlands to speak on the future of footwear. Waalwijk is a small Dutch town with more than 400 related footwear businesses including a tannery.
It used to be the global epicenter for footwear given its proximity to the world’s largest port, dense forests and endless cows. Today, retail is almost all that’s left there. It’s a familiar story in manufacturing where jobs go to the lowest wage providers.
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The textiles industry was one of the first and perhaps most famous examples of automation, having brought in the loom that so incensed the Luddites.
But in the centuries since, the level of automation in textiles hasn’t really changed much, and the machines could only do the relatively simple tasks.
The automation machines available to the textiles industry today can be used in many parts of the process, from cutting to overlocking and so on, but the main thing they cannot yet do with equivalent skill is sewing. [Read more…] about Large textiles company and supplier to Adidas orders Soft Wear Automation’s robotic sewing system
