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The study was commissioned to assess factory floor communications networking in the U.S. textile and apparel industry, and determine if applicable networking standards exist which could facilitate Computer Integrated Manufacturing. Industry wide surveys and interviews were conducted to identify current and future information requirements for textile and apparel production. Current communications industry standards, and both proprietary and open networking schemes were reviewed, but none of the standards were complete. Trends toward standardization provide hope that computer industry standards may be complete by the early 1990s. Computer industry giants have accepted the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. Textile and apparel producers, in conjunction with their equipment manufacturers, should develop industry specific standards based on OSI specifications. Companion standards will provide equipment manufacturers and applications programmers the necessary tools to economically construct coherent, integrated systems.