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Posted on: 12/13/17 7:45 AM ET
I loved reading this report.
  
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Posted on: 12/14/17 1:14 AM ET
That's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.
  
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Posted on: 12/14/17 3:28 AM ET
Thanks for sharing. It takes me 14hrs to make a pair; cutting, fitting, sewing, finishing. How can a machine make a pair in 11minutes?!
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Posted on: 12/14/17 6:51 AM ET
One hour 40 minutes! Wow. So that would be 4 pairs of jeans a day! I hope he succeeds. Very interesting article, the manufacturing version of slow sewing.
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I have way too many yards to count, and I will never use them up, but I will die trying!
  
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Posted on: 12/14/17 9:01 AM ET
lol takes me more like a week or two! I love this story and I am rooting for them to get all the workers back to work.
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Posted on: 12/14/17 12:52 PM ET
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"How can a machine make one in 11 minutes."

They don't have to go to the bathroom.
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Posted on: 12/14/17 1:31 PM ET
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11 minutes is the time needles are actually in the fabric in industrial way of counting things.
  
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