Our technology can provide solutions to many industries. But our main vision that we strive to accomplish is to enable a complete and customized automation of clothing production. Our name is a wordplay on “to sew” and “suit” and it embodies this goal:
Enabling robots to sew a suitable suit!

Why is that our vision? We believe in sustainability and prosperity through automation. Processes involving the handling or production of textiles are often performed far away from the place where the textiles are actually being used, therefore requiring an enormous transportation effort. By automating these processes, we can move them back right to where they’re needed in a cost-efficent way. This way, we will shorten transportation routes, create more reliable supply chains, save CO2 emissions and tackle the issue of overproduction.

As a deep-tech company, we work according to the following principles:

• Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
• As simple as possible as complex as needed.
• KISS – Keep it simple, stupid!
• The best idea wins, no matter who it is from.
• Don’t fall in love with your feature or part.
• Product first, ego last.
• Great products are built by great teams, the foundation of which are awesome people.

Automation and AI will transform our economies and our workplaces within the next years, having significant impact on all of our lifes. At sewts, we are developing innovative technology with the capacity to automate many processes that have never been automated before, so we are part of that transformation. While doing so, we want to make sure to that our impact on the world is positive.

Climate change is undoubtedly the biggest challenge of this century. Every individual can make an effort to limit their carbon footprint, but it is important to recognize that a lot of responsibility lies with government and large corporations. Automation is a one puzzle piece to make production processes more sustainable.

It is our goal to use automation of industrial processes to cut carbon emissions.

Let’s look at the garment industry specifically. According to a recent report from the World Resources institute, it emitted 1.025 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide in 2019 and this number will keep growing if there are no counter-measures, as the industry in general is growing.

The production process usually involves multiple, resources-intensive steps with long transport routes in between. A fast fashion t-shirt is likely to have traveled between 20.000 and 65.000 kilometers before it reaches your local store. Additionally, it matters how it travels: Most likely via cargo ships, which are able to transport large amounts of goods, but are also extremely polluting on account of their use of heavy fuel oil .

Through automation, we want to significantly reduce emissions in the garment industry by bringing back local production – meaning that garments can be made in close proximity to where they’re needed – as well as limiting overproduction, since clothing can be made on demand, tailored to your body. This is possible because automation is cheaper than manual labour in big industrialized countries. The only thing missing so far is the robotic intelligence, which sewts is now providing.

The garment industry is a good example for the climate-saving impact of automation, but of course it’s the same for many other production processes. Think about other textiles, like carseat covers, rubber parts that need to be assembled as part of larger machines, or even the food industry. Automation prevents the use of cheap labour with the environmental price tag of shipping items across the globe.