The Wonderful World of Wearables
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We hear a lot about Industry 4.0 and how we can benefit from connecting our production equipment to other parts of the plant, or to the outside world. Now Industry 4.0 is coming to your closet – in the form of connected clothing and other wearable items – and even to fabric-based home interior items such as carpets, drapes, shades and more.
Sound like a futuristic fantasy? It’s not as far away as you might think. I recently spoke to Sasha Stolyarov, CEO of Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), one of nine Manufacturing USA institutes. AFFOA has been a leader in research and development for fiber and fabric computing, a key to creating next-generation wearables – although Stolyarov prefers not to use that term.
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U.S. Senate China bill would create ‘chief manufacturing’ post in research boost
FILE PHOTO: A handout picture from October 2019 shows a component of Google s Quantum Computer in the Santa Barbara lab, California, U.S. Google/Handout via REUTERS
May 7, 2021
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate committee leaders have drafted a compromise $110 billion measure for basic and advanced technology research and science over five years and the creation of a White House chief manufacturing officer in the face of rising competitive pressure from China, according to a copy of the 131-page draft legislation seen on Friday by Reuters.
US Senate committee leaders have drafted a compromise US$110 billion measure for basic and advanced technology research and science over five years, and the creation of a White House chief manufacturing officer in the face of rising competitive pressure from China, according to a copy of the 131-page draft legislation seen on Friday by reporters.
The revised draft bill by US Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell and the committee’s top Republican US Senator Roger Wicker is set to be debated by the committee on Wednesday.
The bipartisan “Endless Frontier” bill would authorize most of the money, US$95 billion, over five years