JAPAN TEXTILE MAKERS RECEPTIVE TO GOVERNMENT PUSH TO INTEGRATE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN PRODUCTION AND OUTPUT
July 1st, 2018
FIRST coined in Germany in 2010, Industry 4.0 - the term for automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies - has been adopted by many countries as an industrial goal. And, with innovation in cyber physical systems, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and cognitive computing continuing at a rapid pace, the potential of this fourth industrial revolution is capturing the imagination of Japan’s academia, commerce and government.
Indeed, in April 2016, the Japanese government decided to go one better than the Germans, setting out a ...
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