Development garment industry

Garment industry throughout the world has the same problem, and those are large supplies of finished garments that cannot find their customers. The industry of highly or less developed countries faces many crises and constant fall of production, loss of markets, workers being redundant, closing –up factories and moving production into countries with cheap manpower. Developed countries were forced to intensify researches of automatic systems of technology processes, thus leading to progress in the field of mehatronics, automatization and robotics and inventing new so-called intelligent sewing machines. Therefore it is necessary to pay attention to the education of engineers for garment industry and try to master technology production processes by applying the latest production techniques and technologies in order to adjust and survive on the market.

Producers of clothes today do their business in conditions of rapid dynamics of changes and unstoppable trend of globalization, with many innovations and large competition. Whole world is treated as a potential source of production, and at the same time as a unique market of garments with the following characteristics:

- consumers-demands are getting bigger and changes of customers’ needs happen very quickly, thus strengthening their influence on business,

- competition-it is stronger and more able every day (every new fashion item is just a “temporary monopole”),

- new technologies-new technology, new machines and different cultures change potentials and needs,

- purchase-producers of clothes are getting more dependent on the chain of supply due to continuous changes and matching the offer to the customers’ needs, and also because of compulsory increasing of efficiency and decreasing of costs as the basis of competition (no supplies, no mistakes, no delays…),

- market-business ethics is a changeable category, and intentions and trends of competition are hard to follow.