SPORTSWEAR MANUFACTURERS STRUGGLING TO UTILISE MOST MODERN ROBOTICS
November 1st, 2016
The world’s leading sportswear brands and manufacturers are struggling to equip their factories with the robotic cyberphysical systems (CPS) element of Industry 4.0 processes, at least in the near term, a major international conference has heard.
Last week’s World Federation of Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) Manufacturers Forum in Taichung, Taiwan, (held on November 15-16), played host to delegates from 20 countries representing brands such as adidas, Nike and Giant Bicycles, market-leading manufacturers such as Taiwan’s footwear specialist Pou Chen, as ...
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