According to Dr. Jana, the sewing operators constitutes nearly 85% of the total workforce in the garment manufacturing sector and the i-SMART solution addresses the long pending problem of digitalising worker’s skill and removing bias. This would be cloud based system.
All the operator’s skill data will be stored on the cloud database. The certificate of operator training and their skill level can be accessed through their unique number. At present, i-Smart team has used the trainees Adhar number for making a unique operator code across Indian cities.
Though the presenter has not mentioned whether this solution is available for skilled sewing operators or not.
Operator sewing skill evaluation.
The online webinar was held on 4th October. It was a great presentation done by NIFT faculty members and valuable discussion by the panelists from the garment industry. The presentation was on how the i-Smart solution will work. They had shared the steps how to convert training swatch and rate it using their smart tool. You can see the brief method in this video.
Hardware components need to us the system. Sewing machine, control panel, A barcode printer, One image scanner and local desktop and the access to the i-Smart. After scanning the training of their innovative research work and commercializing their sewing operator training skill.
