Opening of Seongdong Smart Fashion Center Marks a New Start for the Fashion Manufacturing Industry

Anyone Can Use the Sewing Service Company: Fast, High Quality, Expected to Become a Manufacturing Hub Where Small Sewing Workers Achieve Their Dreams

On the 16th, Jung Won-oh, the mayor of Seongdong-gu, demonstrated smart devices at the Smart Fashion Center.

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Seongdong-gu (Mayor Jeong Won-oh) officially kicked off the leap of the fashion manufacturing industry by establishing a joint production infrastructure for garment manufacturing, starting with the opening of the Seongdong Smart Fashion Center on the 16th.

The Seongdong Smart Fashion Center was selected last year in the “Seoul Smart Process Support Project Contest,” targeting garment manufacturing clusters. It installed and operates a smart shared cutting room equipped with automated cutting facilities to support small-lot, multi-product garment cutting.

By building automated equipment, all tasks of the existing “cutting-pattern making-marking” process are carried out using automated cutting facilities, which is expected to shorten production processes, improve quality, and significantly enhance the working environment by reducing dust in small-scale garment manufacturing workplaces.

According to the 2019 Business Survey Report, the district ranks fifth among Seoul’s autonomous districts in the number of garment-related manufacturing companies. Among them, pure sewing companies account for 52.8%, with 914 companies employing 6,103 people, making it a core urban manufacturing industry.

Accordingly, since the establishment of the Seongdong Fashion Sewing Association in 2018, the district has pursued the Smart Fashion Center to reduce sewing costs and improve quality. It has created a smart system from design to sewing and linked sewing companies wishing for small-lot production, enabling support even for small garment manufacturers.

The district plans to conduct training on the use of smart advanced equipment and specialized equipment for sewing companies during the full operation following the pilot operation of the Smart Fashion Center in May, ensuring that any sewing company can use the center.

Additionally, through N.TREE, a joint brand of fashion manufacturing companies, it aims to elevate the status of sales fashion manufacturing and plans to actively operate an education exhibition hall and sales in the future.

Jeong Won-oh, Mayor of Seongdong-gu, said, “In these difficult times for everyone, I hope the Seongdong Smart Fashion Center will be of great help to local sewing companies, and we will continue to make multifaceted efforts to leap forward as a Seongdong-style fashion manufacturing cluster.”

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