Gaining Ground: Automation in textile industry started more than a decade ago in India. Now, it is gathering steam and reaching wider areas, finds the ITJ Cover Story.
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vIt is very much a fact that automation has uplifted the textile industry; however, it is an observed theory that a single change brings about thousand other changes in the system, says Avinash Mayekar.
“Cobots are not robots. Robots are there for more than 40 years, but cobots are collaborative robots that works alongside the humans. You can say cobots are a third helping hand or a tool in a toolbox.
India’s technical textile market is estimated to reach Rs 1,16,217 crore by 2017-18, and the important feature at this year’s Techtextil India, to be held from September 13 to 15, 2017 at the Bombay Convention.
In 2017-18, world cotton production is projected to increase by 8 per cent to 24.9 million tonne while the global cotton consumption is forecast to rise by 2 per cent to 25 million tonne.
India is changing its colour from traditions to fashion and textile and apparel industry is the best observer to witness the same. We are growing and expanding to be precise we are developing beyond boundaries. From a country once considered only as a farmers land. India today has explored and is competing in each and every segment from textiles to electronics, our presence is dominant everywhere.