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The Assembly Top 50: Capital Investment Down From '08 Levels

October 31, 2011
John Sprovieri
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The Assembly Top 50 devoted $110.6 billion to capital expenditures in 2010. That’s 9 percent more than they spent in 2009, but it’s 21 percent less than they spent in 2008. Only 15 of the Top 50 spent more on property, plants and equipment in 2010 than they spent in 2008.
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Assembly Top 50: Headcount Static Despite Gains in Revenue

October 31, 2011
John Sprovieri
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In 2010, the Top 50 employed 6.86 billion people worldwide. That’s 4 percent more than they employed in 2009, but it’s slightly under the total for 2008.
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Special Report: The Assembly Top 50

October 31, 2011
John Sprovieri
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After a dismal 2009, our Top 50 manufacturers are back in the black.
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AssemTech Inc. is a busy and growing harness assembly shop in West Chicago, IL. The company has a 12,000-square-foot assembly area and employs 20 full-time harness assemblers - far cry from its early days back in 1986, when founder Chuck Hall and various family members assembled harnesses in his garage.

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Lighting and 3D: Their Impact on Vision Inspection
Cognex Corp. makes vision inspection systems for manufacturers worldwide. Recently, John Stamos, sales engineer for Cognex, spoke with Jim Camillo, a senior editor of Assembly magazine, about the impact of lighting and 3D technologies on current and future vision inspection systems. The interview was conducted after a small-group presentation by Stamos in Chicagoland.
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