Closing the loop at the international level
How will today’s new technologies shape the textile industry of tomorrow and are we truly on the cusp of major change?
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Chaired by Madelaine Thomas, Head of Content for World Textile Information Network (WTiN), the webinar brought together Mauro Moro, CEO of spinning machinery leader Savio, Thomas Fischer, Deputy Director of Management Research at DITF Denkendorf and Shannon McCarthy, Head of Business Development for software specialist Datatex Consulting.
Looking specifically at automation within individual mills, Moro said that the full potential of today’s advanced machines is still not being realised by the majority of manufacturers.
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“Costs are critical in spinning, which is at the beginning of the supply chain in which much of the margin is created at the retail level,” he said. “There are, however, a lot of costs that can be avoided with proper management of machines and processes, in terms of efficient energy consumption and set-up and maintenance times, as well as labour usage.
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“It is now possible to fully track both incoming and outgoing quality, and today a machine is no longer passive and waiting for instructions, with many automatic actions now embedded. A lot has been achieved in the past 20 years, but what is really driving the higher use of automation now, is the lack of available machine operators and high wages in the main textile manufacturing regions.”
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