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V. N. Ruzive, P. Jeun Ho TsangFashion Tech Appliedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9694-3_3

3. Production and the Connected Supply Chain

Von N. Ruzive1   and Peter Jeun Ho Tsang1
(1)
Paris, France
 

3.1 Next-Generation Materials

Factories of the future, what will they look like? Fashion production still relies mainly on cheap manual labor to produce the 100 to 150 billion garments per year (Fashion United, 2023) compared to other verticals such as automobile and transportation. As discussed in Chapter 1, the Fifth Industrial Revolution is upon us whereby man and machine will have a more symbiotic relationship to automate tasks and achieve greater efficiencies. ...

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