The Thread That Won’t Break: Why Stitching Still Beats the Machines Trying to Replace It

A Problem Automation Keeps Underestimating Every few years, some new bonding technology gets billed as the thing that will finally make the sewing machine obsolete. Ultrasonic welding was going to do it. Then heat-sealed tape. Then structural adhesives borrowed from aerospace. And yet walk onto the floor of a parachute loft, an airbag plant, a […]