Case Study: Henderson Sewing achieves fully autonomous sewing and 1-year ROI with Rethink Robotics Baxter

Rethink Robotics’ Baxter Drives Efficiency, ROI for Henderson Sewing Automated Solution

Henderson Sewing, a family-run industrial sewing machine and automation company, faced intense global competition and difficulty finding skilled labor for repetitive factory-floor tasks like loading, unloading, and transferring materials between machines. To address this challenge, the company turned to Rethink Robotics’ Baxter collaborative robot to help build more autonomous sewing production systems.

Using Baxter robots from Rethink Robotics, Henderson Sewing automated machine-tending and material-handling steps within its custom sewing systems, allowing it to offer fully autonomous solutions to customers. The result was faster response times on custom orders, lower costs, and a measurable return on investment in 12 to 18 months, with Henderson Sewing reporting ROI in about one year for its own implementation.

Henderson Sewing

Frank Henderson

President