Tag Archives: Industrial automation

For many years, discussion of the global garment industry has been dominated by the following question: Where were your clothes made, and by whom?

Cambodia’s garment sector is the backbone of the country’s export-driven economy and employs 86 percent of all factory workers. But the sector faces threats from increasingly competitive regional neighbours, the inevitable shift to automation and the potential loss of preferential trade agreements.

CPD RMG Study explores the recent trends in female workforce participation in the RMG enterprises of Bangladesh.

Mahmooda Sultana, born at Ishwardi in Rajshahi, made the headlines recently after she received the prestigious IRAD Innovator of the Year award from NASA.

There is an indication that a sizable share of RMG enterprises are likely to be situated at a level where they could either survive or they could become ‘uncompetitive’.

At the Mohammadi Fashion Sweaters Ltd. factory in Bangladesh’s capital, a few dozen workers stand watching as 173 German-made machines knit black sweaters for overseas buyers.

Bangladesh should train its garment workers to improve their skills as 80 percent of them could lose jobs in the next 15 years due to automation, said fashion experts yesterday.

Much of Asia isn’t ready for robots, for reasons that go beyond fears of unemployment. In a positive move, countries are training workers to fix machines, writes Stephen Groff.

Rapid automation of production, closure of some noncompliant factories and the emergence of some other high-potential sectors have shrunk the total number of workers employed by the garment sector by 0.80 million over the last five years.

Technology and its new advances are a reality in today's world. One such advancement is robots with the capability to perform many human tasks. So much that robots are now being made that can replace workers.