Apparel4Tech, a company featured in ITMA’s Start-Up Valley, is sharing information about its Industry 4.0 solution for the textile & garment manufacturing sector – specifically, sewing – at its booth.
Launched last year, Apparel4Tech provides intelligent skills mapping technology which determines the “inherent skills” of garment manufacturing labourers to identify which tasks suit individual workers.
According to the company, the technology increases efficiency and productivity in a labour-oriented industry that employs “relatively low-skilled workers” behind machines.
Apparel4Tech is featured at ITMA's Start-Up Valley
Deepti Sao, head of operations at Apparel4Tech, said at present industry “does not have any device or application which can identify skillsets”. Thus, digitalisation presents a unique solution.
She continued: “When we are selecting operators it is a random decision – we don’t have evidence that they are effective at the task or not. At present, manufacturing floor managers allocate operators based on their own intelligence, with little proof or data.
“With Apparel4Tech’s technology new labourers can take a test that is analysed. The analysis will identify whether they can perform better in various operations.”
Even today, in the textile & apparel industry’s advanced digitalised state, apparel manufacturing remains labour oriented, which can arguably lead to errors in production and inefficiencies. Apparel4Tech suggests that the augmenting of human performance can benefit this efficiency and “make the factory a smarter place to work”.
Sao said interest in the start-up is budding: “People are interested because it is a unique product – within 30 minutes you can capture whole data and maintain a database. It is compact and easy to utilise.”
Thus far, the company’s primary audience comes from the textile sector, though hopes ITMA will help in targeting garment manufacturers too.
The company is featured in ITMA’s Start-Up Valley, a new incentive by CEMATEX (the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers), which spotlights companies with “game-changing solutions and technologies” in its early stages of development.
For more information, visit Apparel4Tech in Hall 3, Booth A201j.
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