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…idled manufacturing plants.” The smartwatches, a joint effort between Samsung Electronics and Radiant RFID, use Bluetooth technology “to detect proximity and clustering of workers.” If two people are standing too close to one another, the watch vibrates and displays a color-coded, “danger Will Robinson” warning that tells them to break it up. Ford also announced that it expects to use thermal-imaging scanning technology as workers enter a facility to look for fever and to provide workers with masks and plastic face shields. Welcome to the post-COVID-19 industrial workplace While companies are wrestling with the question of when to re-open shuttered…