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> Just tracing and keeping track of a particular garment through the production would be a huge effort. For a robot/computer.
by someweirdperson 4y ago
> Just tracing and keeping track of a particular garment through the production would be a huge effort.
For a robot/computer.
- krisoft 4y agoNot just for a robot/computer. Imagine that you have to make 500 shirts. Previously you can take the textile, cut out the right size pieces. Maybe 3 or 4 pieces per end product. After cutting you have large piles, other people sew together to finished shirts. These shirts go to a giant pile and get shipped to a warehouse. Now what changes if you have an orderbook of 500 shirts all with custom sizes? You (or a robot or whoever) cuts out the pieces for order number 1. You can’t just grab any lefts and sew them to any backs. You need to sew that specific left with that specific back. After cutting do you mark the pieces? If so how do you remove the marks later? If not how do you QC that there were no mixups? After a shirt is done how do you make sure it ends up with the right customer? These are all solveable of course. The thing I am disagreeing is that all you need is a robot to cut the pieces and then you can offer custom tailoring for little or no effort.