The quality requirements in clothing manufacturing have been increasing and consumer pressure on prices has also grown steadily. In fact, the textile industry is continuously seeking for countries practicing low salaries, because this kind of industry is usually based on labour-intensive tasks, to the detriment of task automation. Thus, clothing manufacturers need to be creative in order to improve the manufacturing processes, trying to automate the needed operations to produce each cloth component as much as possible. Automated operations avoid manufacturing mistakes and increase productivity, which are the main concerns of the clothing market. This work intends to develop a new concept of equipment able to produce collars and cuffs for shirts almost fully automatically. The manual movements have been carefully observed, optimized and replicated by the equipment, which successfully sews and cuts collars and cuffs for shirt fabrication. The structure and main systems used in the equipment were studied using the Finite Element Method (FEM), ensuring the required accuracy for all related operations. The result is a functional equipment that is able to be produced in large scale with an affordable cost, overcoming several problems related to the labour usually associated with the sewing and cutting operations required to fabricate collars and cuffs.

服装制造业对质量的要求不断提高，消费者对价格的压力也在稳步增长。实际上，纺织工业一直在寻找薪水低的国家，因为这种工业通常基于劳动密集型任务，从而不利于任务自动化。因此，服装制造商必须具有创造力，以改善制造工艺，试图使所需的操作自动化以尽可能多地生产每个布料。自动化操作可避免制造错误并提高生产率，而这是服装市场的主要问题。这项工作旨在开发一种新的设备概念，该设备几乎可以完全自动生产衬衫的衣领和袖口。手动运动已被仔细观察，通过设备优化和复制，可成功缝制和切割衣领和袖口，以制作衬衫。使用有限元方法（FEM）对设备中使用的结构和主要系统进行了研究，以确保所有相关操作所需的精度。结果是能够以可承受的成本大规模生产功能设备，克服了与通常与制造领子和袖口所需的缝纫和切割操作相关的劳力相关的几个问题。