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Smart manufacturing must embrace big data

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Study and model industrial processes to save money, energy and materials, urges Andrew Kusiak.

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  1. Andrew Kusiak is professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.,

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