Manufacture of high quality clothes in Portugal

The clothing manufacturing industry is included in one of the steps of the textile production:

Fiber production

Yarn production Weaving, Knit or nonwoven Dyeing and finishing Apparel manufacturing Retail Consumption

This industry has, as first plan process, the sewing operations, and as a secondary plan the cut, fusing, ironing, etc. In this context, the production is reduced to the sewing machine which is not more than a needle and some synchronizing mechanisms allowing the continuous production of seam stiches, everything else is left up to the operator. The operator is responsible for a high quantity of operations, such as controlling the speed of the stitch formation, the alignments of parts to sew, the shape of the thread where the seam is made and therefore the shape of the clothing, the different styles to produce, the quality during and after a seam, etc. Nevertheless, it is estimated that only 1/5 of the task progress is sewing time, being the others 4/5 to manipulate the fabrics and get them ready for stitching, scoring, folding, take out the work of the sewing machine, among other operations. Only 5-10% of the sewing operations can currently be made my automated machines.

Manufacture of high quality clothes in Portugal