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Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center

Fashioning the future

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ISAIC employee sews personal protective equipment

The Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center’s mission

The Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center (ISAIC) provides training and technology support to create a sustainable, equitable, and profitable apparel industry in the U.S. The Detroit-based nonprofit’s courses, apprenticeship program, and manufacturing center support workers, entrepreneurs, and businesses to fashion the future of US-made, soft goods.

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ISAIC employee threads a sewing machine

Autodesk collaboration

ISAIC and the Autodesk Foundation continue to refine how ISAIC uses Autodesk’s technology and pro bono support to advance its mission. In 2021, ISAIC worked with a fellow to develop virtual training and on-demand machine repair. This repair can help ISAIC, and other soft-goods manufacturers, develop their workforce and produce goods more efficiently and sustainably.

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ISAIC in action

  • Rendering of a woman in a hospital waiting room with a baby on her back

    Autodesk University

    AU 2019 Theater Talks

    ISAIC CEO Jennifer Guarino speaks on inclusive manufacturing and making diversity your greatest asset.

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  • Two employees look at a rendering on a computer

    Redshift

    From fighting fashion-industry waste to PPE

    In response to COVID-19, a nonprofit focused on fashion-industry waste has pivoted to coordinating a massive, mask-and-gown initiative in the resurgent manufacturing hub of Detroit.

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  • Aerial view of a hospital in Haiti

    99% Invisible

    Masking for a friend

    The 99% Invisible podcast speaks to ISAIC CEO Jennifer Guarino on making PPE in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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