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FEATURE / ADVANCING COMPOSITES MANUFACTURING
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author would like to acknowledge the neXt Research Team members for valuable contributions
to the cited research. The author would like to acknowledge the South Carolina Research Authority
(SCRA) for an SACT grant funding the initial work
on the Future Factories laboratory. Several partners
support the Future Factories laboratory at the University of South Carolina, including Siemens and
Yasakawa.
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