Staff Correspondent: As many as 120 machines are knitting sweaters round the clock in a huge air-conditioned room with a handful of workers inputting instructions and designs into computers.
Thanks to automation, the apparel plant of Softex Sweater Industries at Savar on the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka reduced the number of workers to 22 from 700 in the knitting unit.
The plant needs fewer workers as they just sort the items manufactured by the machines, according to the company’s Head of Operations Tahzeeb Ul Gani Shahjee.
“You only need to feed designs and measurements into the machines. […]
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