ITMA 2019 : The Sky’s The Limit With Cloud Connectivity And Automatic Sewing Machinery
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For Chinese machinery specialist Suzhou Transparent Electronic Technology (TPET), innovation in the field of sewn goods and home textiles has taken similar precedence. The company’s prized ‘Automatic Four Sides Sewing’ will be the centrepiece to its ITMA exhibit – a solution which is able to sew four sides of a product simultaneously to greatly improve manufacturing efficiency.
“The ‘Made in China 2025’ strategy has set off a new round of development upsurge in the manufacturing industry. For the sewing industry in the process of development and change, these opportunities were not available. However, challenges can also give rise to opportunities. Therefore, every enterprise needs to think about how to advance and develop in this space,” Brent He, TPET’s Overseas Business Manager, says.
With its extensive capabilities, TPET’s sewing innovation not only yields greater capacities and product turnover speeds, it in turn reduces labour dependence and intensity, as well as eliminates dust during production – via a dedicated fibre dust collection system – and waste material.
The advances in textile technology, while significant first and foremost for the greater speeds and capacities they yield, are increasingly incentivising brands and manufacturers to adopt automated solutions due to the mitigation of waste from production. Progress made with regards to data management and Cloud connectivity has enabled customers to more effectively keep tabs on resource utilisation and subsequently reduce waste.
“IoT solutions use original and real-time machine data whereas other solutions depend on manual entries that could be manipulated by the operator,” German innovator Duerkopp Adler’s Head of Marketing Services, Marina Linning told us of its latest solutions.
“We are able to monitor the production in real time and provide ready-to-use data to optimise the processes in the sewing room. We’re going to present leading IoT solutions together with most modern sewing and textile welding machine technologies at ITMA,” Linning continued.
A raft of tech specialists will follow suit, as sewing technologies will take centre stage at this summer’s ITMA event. Pfaff and Juki, to name but two, will showcase their respective sewing solutions; the functionalities of which far supersede what the industry was once accustomed to. Now, speed is only one element in the equation; innovators must now offer efficient and connected technologies that work cohesively with technologies in other areas of production.
