Sapna Patel, Author at Softwear Automation

Bloomberg Green: How to Have a Green Christmas

SoftWear Automation CEO Palaniswamy Rajan tells us how made on demand manufacturing can solve supply chain problems and cut emissions.

Just Style: Artificial intelligence (AI) in apparel supply chains could force reshoring

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based sewbots and automation in apparel is not leading to nearshoring and shorter supply chains in developed countries yet, but experts have said that day may come. The

E-Magazine: Material World – A Greener and Smarter Future for Textile Production

The environmental impact of textile production is well documented, with the industry as a whole ranking second only to oil in terms of global pollution levels. Massive energy and water

Mind Matters News: What do Robots find hard? Sewing a t-shirt, for one thing

Humans automatically and constantly adjust hand movements to the ever-changing alignment of cloth. Robots just freeze Menswear entrepreneur Harris Quinn wrote a thoughtful piece at Wired recently on the mixed success of efforts to automate

Sourcing Journal: Here’s Why Made in USA is Still Important to Fashion Consumers

Independence Day brings the country together to cheer all things American. And while the textile industry can, despite COVID, celebrate an increase in stateside manufacturing, apparel makers have continued to offshore their manufacturing,

Robotics Tomorrow: Sewbots Transforming The Textile Industry

Automation in the textile industry started over two centuries ago with John Kay’s invention of the flying shuttle. The machine not only enabled an increase in production but also brought