Sewts, a German deep-tech start-up and featured company in ITMA’s Start-Up Valley, is showcasing its industrial automated material handling solution.
The company “teaches robots how to handle textiles”, said Alexander Bley, co-founder at Sewts.
“The complex thing about textiles, as you know, is they behave in very unpredictable ways – the seam wrinkles, [the fabric deforms] and the shape is very complex.
“We develop the software to detect different features within and to process the textiles.”
It is widely accepted that the main barrier to automation adoption in the textile & apparel industry is a lack of proficient automated fabric gripping technology for the handling of fabric after cutting. Limitations in this area of fabric handling mean manufacturers are dependent on human labour to sew together garments and have left robotics and other automation somewhat inaccessible.
However, slowly but surely, automation solutions – industrial robots, gripping and automated vehicles – are enhancing the capabilities of factories, generating smart environments where materials can be transported, moved or handled in automated ways.
Sewts claims to be one such solution on the market. The company said it can “automate what others can’t, making robotic handling of easily deformable materials accessible for everybody”.
The company works with a range of customers from industrial laundries to ecommerce return quality control.
Sewts is featured at ITMA's Start-Up Valley
The organisation is featured as part of 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.
Bley said this is a great “opportunity for Sewts to connect with the textile industry”.
For more information, visit Sewts in Hall 3, Booth A201f.
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