Automation

[Evo]

Rich Hoffman explained this years ago. M&R would have had a counterpart loader machine to the Passport but the shirts need to be stacked perfectly to make it work. The man hours needed to stack the shirts perfectly was more than just having a human loader load the shirts. To get the shirts perfectly stacked and ready to go from the mill would have required "an act of God" (Rich's words).

So we are a ways off until robots can autonomously and deftly pick a shirt off a stack and load it.

Go mammals.

[tonypep]

Thats exactly true of course. Also true is on some unloader models, the dryer cant always keep which in turn somewhat defeats the purpose. Unless you purchase a new dryer which may or may not fit and adds quite a bit to the purchase decisions. Definitely a could you/should you and quite possibly a big "whoops"!

[blue moon]

It would be possible to use a machine to stack, but not sure the ROI would be there. You’d still need a person to feed the garments to the stacker, which ultimately would just simplify the loading process rather than replace it…
pj
P.s. take a look here to see what can be automated in the garment creation. It is amazing how we can now move fabric with automation. Something we thought impossible just few years ago.
https://www.facebook.com/kael.chen.2025/reels/

[ebscreen]

Could you imagine these dudes loading/unloading your machines? Or even catching?
I'm not gonna lie and say we haven't had similar employees but....

https://youtu.be/bo4d1dH0kZY?si=V9chrNWg1es9RHnX

[mk162]

Could you imagine these dudes loading/unloading your machines? Or even catching?
I'm not gonna lie and say we haven't had similar employees but....

https://youtu.be/bo4d1dH0kZY?si=V9chrNWg1es9RHnX

that looks exactly like peewee soccer