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Trends in Manufacturing: Insights from 750 Leaders

Trends in Manufacturing: Insights from 750 Leaders

Despite manufacturers’ best forecasts, no one could have predicted what 2020 had in store. For many manufacturers, the destabilizing force of the pandemic exposed weaknesses along the value chain. It also highlighted opportunities to justify larger-scale.

Researchers developed a faster strain-temperature sensor that features one million sensing points over a single 10-kilometer of standard fiber. It could be useful for monitoring the integrity of large structures and for biomedical sensing.

Sensor Could Detect Structural Defects Quicker

With one million sensing points, a newly developed fiber optic sensor could offer significantly faster detection of structural problems.