Textile Industry Or Gradual Automation Cause Social Impact Or Great Impact.

In recent years, the textile industry has created a large number of job opportunities in Southeast Asia and South Asian countries. A large number of population and low wage South Asian countries hope that the demographic dividend can lead the country to economic prosperity. The World Bank estimates that in the next 20 years, the South Asian region will add 1 million 200 thousand labourers in a month, and 240 million people will be added in 20 years, but the automation technology developed in the other part of the world will have a huge impact.

According to the financial times (FinancialTimes), SoftWearAutomation, located in Atlanta, USA, is developing the textile robot Sewbot, which can completely pfer the entire garment manufacturing process to automation, but it will take some time to achieve low price and reliability to replace human beings.

A textile worker in India earns 1200 dollars a year, but now a Sewbot costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, but replacing human beings is only a matter of time, which will destroy the economic development mode of the emerging countries.

South Asia, Southeast Asia and sub Saharan Africa, which are based on demographic dividend as the basis for economic growth, are at greater risk.

India economists believe that the destructive effect of robots and artificial intelligence is greater than that of past steam, electronics, assembly plants or computer revolution, because artificial intelligence is not just routine work, but the demographic dividend will soon become a nightmare.

After 1980, manufacturing industry grew very slowly, and even some industries also declined. From 2003 to 2009, employment growth in South Asia was only 1/3 of the overall economic growth level, mainly due to the rapid progress of science and technology, resulting in a large number of unemployment in some industries.

Over the past 30 years, the booming India IT service company has also been influenced by the automated cloud computing system.

Infosys and TataConsultancyServices have been laying off workers this year. 400 robots have been introduced to the modern automobile factory in Chennai, India, to replace large numbers of manpower.

The India technology industry, who declined to be named, also said that the unemployment situation in India's technology industry would be even more serious. His company assessed that the introduction of AI could replace half of the employees.

In the first place, especially Bangladesh, which is highly dependent on the garment industry, 82% of its total exports are clothing and 2.5% of its population is engaged in clothing production.

Including Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, 27 million people are employed in the textile industry.

Chinese factory workers now earn 5 times more money than India workers, close to Portugal and South Africa.

Another reason is that making a T-shirt is almost the same as the invention of automatic spinning machine in nineteenth Century, because it is difficult for robots to pick up soft and irregular cotton and move accurately. Manual sewing is made up of many small processes and decisions, so it is difficult to be reproduced by software.

The 4 step is to pick up objects, align, sew and process. Only sewing is automated, and the rest is still done by human beings.

But the Atlanta company develops the sewing robot Sewbot. In order to solve the problem of fine materials, they give the robot camera the same function as the eye, just like an engineer developing an autopilot.

The camera analyzes the stitched material and guides the movement of the robot arm. WAL-MART invested $2 million as part of the automatic jeans production plan.

In September, Sewbot successfully completed the sewing of jeans and plans to expand to T-shirts next year. Now 97% of T-shirts is produced outside the United States.

Why do these large retailers need a lot of cheap labor?

The reason is speed. Now we have to produce 100 thousand garments at a time, and we must place the order in China before 9-12 months. If retailers want to be closer to the market, they can place 10 thousand orders first, and deliver them within a month.

Amazon submitted a patent in April, which is the technology of garment production automation based on demand.

But how can the emerging economies depend on the labour economy? India's finance minister thinks there is still time to go. Now textile robots will take 10 years or even 20 years to completely replace labour. He believes that before robots become smart and cheap to replace humans, good training, well-organized free-trade agreements and labour market reforms can increase manufacturing opportunities.

Others believe that emerging countries should focus on developing services, such as tourism, pportation and finance, to compensate for the loss of manufacturing industry.

But if the country misses the opportunity, the social impact of automation will be huge, PahleIndiaFoundation, a non-profit organization in New Delhi, India, believes that all educated young people may be unemployed because of automation, the nightmare of India.

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