"trying to convert the industry to an on-demand model"

Mais um sintoma de Mongo e das suas tribos cada vez mais pequenas e mais aguerridas, "This clothing factory cuts waste by machine-knitting sweaters on demand":

"Fashion’s trash problem is partly a planning problem
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By one estimate, 30% of the 150 billion garments produced each year are never sold.
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To combat this waste, some startups are trying to convert the industry to an on-demand model. Tailored Industry, a knitwear manufacturing startup based at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in New York City, uses software to connect brands to its 3D knitting machines. At its facility, the company uses Japanese-made knitting machines that can knit the sleeves and body of a sweater simultaneously without any cutting and sewing–another step that reduces waste compared to some other methods of production. The startup still makes larger production runs. But they’re trying to convert more brands to the new approach. (Making clothing on demand costs slightly more per piece than a run of hundreds of items, but companies can save later, in theory, because they don’t have extra costs of warehousing and marking down unsold garments.)
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“Right now, fashion brands are really stuck in long planning cycles,”
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The current process of making samples may take a few months, and a large production run can take several more months. “The whole process takes a year to two years. What really results from that is a lot of overproduction because they’re producing based on the forecast of what they think they need. And what we’re doing is basically bringing the minimum order quantity to zero, so that we can produce exactly what they need when they need it.”"