I seen plenty of factory videos of clothing items being made. Almost always these are sewn together manually with industrial sewing machines. Haven’t seen the robots you showed in operation. Lasers can cut cloth but often for manufacturing they are either punched out with dies, or in the case of clothing they print out a large sheet of patterns, then using an industrial shear they’re cut out in cloth 100 layers thick. The pieces are then sent to the workers to sew them together.
I don’t know how expensive the machines are, but there’s gotta be reasons why few clothing manufacture is automated.
And you know because you’ve seen a video…I go to about 20 factories a year across China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Jordan, Turkey.
Laser cutting is widespread and not used for cutting patterns. Cutting patterns they can use an auto cutter which is very common, fully automated. Screen printing, sublimation printing all can be fully automated. So can basically any fully fashion knit construction. People aren’t sewing socks by hand.
Yes people are still sewing panels together but to say clothing manufacturing can’t be automated is false. There is continuous innovation and CNC machines are in widespread use. What manufacturing process is 100% automated and doesn’t need any people?
This is part of the reason it is difficult to move back to the US. The machines used in apparel manufacturing are made in China, Japan, Korea. Not the US.
You really shouldn’t do this man, assuming you want to get on well with people and avoid annoying them. I’m not sure how much you remember about the people you’re responding to and previous posts on here, or how much you read before writing (if any…), but @Malasang88 has posted quite a few times about working in this industry. I don’t think you need to explain clothing manufacturing to him.
It’s like when you’ve tried to explain farming to our resident farmer @Explant, or chemistry stuff to me, or I can’t remember what else. It must be nice to feel like an expert in every single field of human knowledge, but you ain’t. Sometimes it’s better to say nothing and read rather than writing — you might learn something.
I saw your above comment about clothing being impossible to automate, not being made in China anymore, etc., earlier and assumed those claims were largely wrong, as is so often the case, but I didn’t bother responding because I’m not an expert on that either. I do know just barely enough about automation in other fields that I’d be surprised if automating clothing manufacture were impossible. Good that @Malasang88 was willing to correct the misinformation though.