Auto-bagger.

The last machine before weigh-and-label: a folded garment is fed in, a bag is formed from a roll or taken from a stack of pre-made bags, and the seal is made and trimmed. This is the automation a mid-size POD shop buys years before it looks at robots, because it removes a manual station that every single order has to pass through. The published rates are not quoted on the same basis: ROQ's BAG is specified at 600 garments an hour on pre-made bags, and M&R's AB-9000 at up to 18 roll-fed bags a minute, with a maximum bag size of 30 x 38 cm. The mistake is sizing the line to the folder rather than the bagger: ROQ's own FOLD is rated at 700 pieces an hour against the BAG's 600, so the line runs at 600 and the folder waits. Bag size is the constraint that bites late, because a bagger comfortable with a folded tee will refuse a folded hoodie, and the shop finds this out in Q4.