RESEARCH

Product Development and Research

• Consult on product development issues viz. developing of specifications, pattern making, and prototype making.
• Provide a CAD service to the clothing sector.
• Develop low cost work aids for SMEs to improve their productivity.
• Research projects.

Research Projects

• Competing with China
  
  Monviso produces a Strappi top at a cost of 8% less than the same quality item sourced from China. This happens within a context where the average wage rate in China is one third of that paid by Monviso in the Western Cape, South Africa.
  
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• Observations and Results from the Rapid Appraisal of Local Innovation Systems (RALIS) exercise conducted in the Clothing and Textiles Sectors of the Western-Cape, South Africa - April 2004
  
  This document describes the results from a rapid and participative appraisal of competitiveness and innovation systems within the Clothing and Textile Sectors of the Western Cape, South Africa. The purpose of the exercise was to identify practical projects that could contribute catalytically to improving competitiveness of the sector.
  
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