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...ASML is the world’s most valuable semiconductor equipment company, with a market cap of about $288bn. It is the third most valuable company overall in the EU....
...The company confirmed in July that it is seeking to build a second US manufacturing facility, and is reportedly also considering a European plant....
...J&J had previously pledged to deliver 10m doses by the end of February. Merck will produce the vaccine and fill vials for J&J, according to a company statement....
...Now a squeeze on computer microchips, which has hobbled the car industry, and shortages of medical equipment and vaccine ingredients, have led other groups to rethink....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...In Europe, the chief of Atlas Copco, Sweden’s biggest company, has told the FT he is expecting big growth rates in automated manufacturing....
...chip manufacturing....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 15 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc....
...The recovery in sales is being driven largely by construction in China and demand for parts as ageing equipment requires repairs....
...But at $15.7bn last year, the company’s revenue from construction machines was down more than a fifth compared to 2011 levels....
...Actelion’s founder and chief executive Jean-Paul Clozel was a reluctant seller and had been rebuffing J&J ever since he was first approached by the company roughly a year a go....
...But Lewis is aware that the company needs to do more to repair its reputation on Twitter and Facebook, where many parents swap scare stories about Johnson’s products....
...that growth rate has been zero. (3) The share of the value-added of information and communication technology (ICT) equipment in the total of U.S. manufacturing value-added rose from 3 percent to 8 percent...
...GSK has used robots to clean animal cages as well as transport equipment to scientists, but the company will also look at how co-bots can be deployed in manufacturing....
...A visit to Ford’s bodyshop complex in Dearborn, Michigan, shows how much of a gamble the company has taken: it has had to replace its arc welding equipment with machines to screw, rivet, glue and laser-weld...
...Around 2000, Rockwell made what the company calls “a big bet” – that the industrial internet would move from the proprietary, closed networks on which it had long run, to more standardised equipment....
..., with orders for medical equipment up 13 per cent....
...This showed that knowing the precise indoor location of someone wearing a head-mounted display, and being able to link that person to a company’s back-end enterprise resource processing system, had many...
...Pharmaceuticals companies are under pressure to find new products to compensate for a wave of patent expiries on blockbuster drugs....
...Markets: Asia-Pacific equities are recovering thanks to a US manufacturing report that showed factories are humming in the world’s biggest economy....
...Cisco Systems fell 0.3 per cent to $20.83 in the first trading session since the network equipment company said it would increase its quarterly dividend by 3 cents to 17 cents a share....
...In September, the US company MakerBot launched the Replicator 2, which offers the same access to desktop manufacturing that the PC did to desktop printing a few decades ago....
...“People coming out of high school just don’t have the skills necessary to work in this industry,” says the chief executive of Advanced Technology Services, a manufacturing equipment maintenance company in...
...as chairman – is on a mission to repair its damaged reputation....
...Even if PAX became a standard on new cars, it would be many years before they would account for a meaningful percentage of repairs – and therefore years before buying the equipment would be attractive for...
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