Top industrial-minded investors include GE, Intel, Qualcomm, Saudi Aramco, Autodesk…while Foxconn builds its own cloud robotics platform.
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Foxconn amid industrial-minded investors in manufacturing with robotics cloud platform
Robotics startups raise over $259 million for 2016
Investments among startup companies building robots for industrial automation, manufacturing, warehouse automation, and other tasks are growing.
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Industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) startups impact manufacturing and supply chains
With machines and sensors collecting data at every step of manufacturing the potential gains from the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are enormous.
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Kimball Electronics review and competitors
Kimball Electronics (Jasper, Indiana) offers complex design, assembly services and competes with other providers. View competing electronics solutions providers to Kimball Electronics and contact companies.
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Taiwan as barometer for health of consumer electronics sector
Revenue from rigid boards are posting a double digit decline compared to the same month last year. Equipment manufacturers and printed circuit manufacturers released pessimistic forecasts for the second half of the year. They blame their pessimism on slow sales from personal computers, and they expect a negative growth from tablet PCs this year.
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Internet of Things changes OEM electronics outsourcing strategy
The Internet of Things changes how electronics OEM decision makers identify capable providers with adequate service capabilities and deep understanding of extract, transform and loading of proprietary methodologies.
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Contract consumer electronics, injection molding, enclosure opportunities
Enclosures produced using computer numerical control machines (CNC) / extrusion (e.g., plastics injection molding) methods should continue to dominate smartphones segment, and are becoming an important feature for handset OEMs. Click to view charts and graphs.
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Robotics drives automotive, industrial electronics manufacturing opportunities
Electronics OEM company needs for lowering manufacturing costs and the contract electronics manufacturing (CEM) industry are encouraged to keep an eye on relationships between these markets.
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Can ODM Wistron navigate PC challenges?
The majority of Wistron’s revenues come from the computing market which could spell trouble if Wistron is unable to create and grow alternate revenue sources.
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Can Taiwan win industrial robotics manufacturing automation race?
Production-related activities in smart factories will need to be linked closer with administrative information systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing execution. Additionally, a broader range of sub-systems from various providers will need to be integrated into smart …
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