• Clothes production is usually a labour-intensive task. • Automation has been increasingly applied in some clothes production operations. • A full-automatic equipment has been developed, allowing collars and cuffs production. • Equipment allows automatic cutting and sewing operations in shirt components. • The different equipment components have been structurally optimized, becoming the equipment more sustainable. • Equipment avoids the use of labour in repetitive and boring tasks with low added-value. The quality requirements in clothing manufacturing have been increasing and consumer pressure on prices has also grown steadily. In fact, the textile industry is continuously seeking for countries practicing low salaries, because this kind of industry is usually based on labour-intensive tasks, to the detriment of task automation. Thus, clothing manufacturers need to be creative in order to improve the manufacturing processes, trying to automate the needed operations to produce each cloth component as much as possible. Automated operations avoid manufacturing mistakes and increase productivity, which are the main concerns of the clothing market. This work intends to develop a new concept of equipment able to produce collars and cuffs for shirts almost fully automatically. The manual movements have been carefully observed, optimized and replicated by the equipment, which successfully sews and cuts collars and cuffs for shirt fabrication. The structure and main systems used in the equipment were studied using the Finite Element Method (FEM), ensuring the required accuracy for all related operations. The result is a functional equipment that is able to be produced in large scale with an affordable cost, overcoming several problems related to the labour usually associated with the sewing and cutting operations required to fabricate collars and cuffs.