Production planning and control is one of the most important aspects of the garment manufacturing industry. Precision in planning equates to on-time shipments, the best use of labor and assurances ...

Garment manufacturing usually involves the use of purchased fabrics, although you could produce your own fabrics as well as garments made from them. You could specialize in a certain apparel ...

Even in this age of wearable technology, the actual fabric in our t-shirts and clothes may still be the most high-tech product we wear. From the genetically engineered cotton seed, though an ...

While robots enter other industries in herds, the assembly of garments has long been a tedious, human privilege. Now, for the first time, a robot has sewn an entire, wearable piece of garment. Sewbo, ...

MeRA is an autonomous apparel manufacturing platform. Credit: CreateMe Technologies/PRNewswire. According to California-based company CreateMe, MeRA is an autonomous ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Since Rana Plaza, do you feel safer in your factories?” “Yes!” came the unanimous and enthusiastic ...

American Apparel is laying off hundreds of workers and retooling its production process — and may start making some of its clothing outside Los Angeles. The downtown L.A. company began layoffs last ...

Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue on A Peace Regime on the Korean Peninsula (Fall-Winter 1996), pp. 211-241 (31 pages) The textile and garment industries are extremely interesting cases of global economic ...