Bangladesh ready-made garment (RMG) makers turned their commodity to fashion to remain competitive in the global market, where technology will take the lead in reaching their target.
Global fashion experts and designers came up with the recommendation, while they were talking about the future of Bangladesh’s apparel industry at the first ever Bangladesh Fashionology Summit in Dhaka on February 12.
Bangladesh Apparel Exchange (BAE), an initiative to promote the country’s RMG sector, organized the summit to initiate discourse on latest fashion in bridging the gap between the present and the future of the textile and fashion industry in the country through technology, innovation and knowledge.
“Bangladesh is in a good position to take the advantage of technology in the RMG sector. Consumers and brands are moving towards tech-driven manufacturing. Here you have people who can adopt technology,” Jonathan Zornow, inventor of Sewbo and expert of automating garment manufacturing and 3D printing told the Dhaka Tribune.
“If you do not have people who can use technology, you will face trouble because people are looking for digital design and tech driven products,” said Jonathan.

According to him, technology is most important in managing the supply chain as the buyers want back and forth sample and want to use digital tools to communicate.
He further added technology is more about reducing production cost and time. Technology improves quality and provides more value to the customers.
Local manufacturers also talked about the role if technology in increasing the export growth which is stagnant right now.
“Growth of Bangladesh apparel exports has been stuck in a certain rate. It is quite impossible to increase export without tech-driven products and technological improvement in manufacturing,” Syed M Tanvir, a director of Pacific Jeans Limited told the Dhaka Tribune.