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Sustainable manufacturing and the factories of the future: small, smart and social?

21/03/2016| | | | | | | | |

The future of factories is small, smart and social. We’ve come to assume that efficiency in manufacturing is the result of economies of scale from large, centralised operations, speed and standardisation. But a combination of new ...

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