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Made Smarter is deploying smart glasses to small-to-medium enterprise (SME) textile manufacturers to virtually fast track their digital adoption strategies and navigate Covid-19 restrictions.
Traceability is incredibly urgent, said Elliott Barlow, manufacturing consultant at UKFT (UK Fashion & Textile Association) at Future Fashion Factory’s Virtual Showcase event, but it was just as urgent 30 years ago, too, he added.
IPC has announced the release of IPC-2591 v1.3, Connected Factory Exchange (CFX), a plug-and-play industry standard for factory communication which is said to “set the baseline for any company to achieve Industry 4.0”.
Insight23 Mar 2021Otis Robinson speaks with Sivakumar Narayanan, executive VP and head of business development at Uster, about the company’s Quantum 4.0 sensor technologies, which are said to enable intelligent quality control for yarn production.
Insight9 Mar 2021Not even the industry’s biggest textile production hubs could escape the economic horrors of 2020. Previously, Turkey had been on an upward climb for the last century but Covid-19 was another unseen enemy right around the corner.