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Boeing, IBM, Maytag and Mitsubishi-Caterpillar plants earn Honorable Mentions.

Engineers must weigh the pros and cons of contact vs. noncontact.

Pulsed Nd:YAG lasers are ideal for welding metal parts in a variety of medical devices.

A simple assembly machine is often the most difficult to design.

Ultrasonic technology may hold the key to the manufacture of fine-pitch printed circuit boards and flexible printed circuits.

The liquid crystal display (LCD) rear-projection televisions and plasma-based direct-view televisions assembled at the Sony Technology Center-Pittsburgh (STC-P, Mt. Pleasant, PA) contain very precise components.

Established in 1974, E-One Inc. (Ocala, FL) employs more than 1,300 people and manufactures fire and rescue vehicles used by fire departments, rescue and EMS squads, and airport emergency crews.

Cirtronics Corp. (Milford, NH) is a full-service contract electronic manufacturer, offering prototype through end-product builds of electronic and electromechanical assemblies-with an emphasis on custom circuit boards.

The Civil Aviation Flying University of China (CAFUC, Shanghai) has purchased 42 Cessna 172 Skyhawk aircraft for use as flight trainers.

For some people, learning how to ride a bike or swim comes naturally. For others, it's one of the hardest things they ever do. Implementing machine vision technology can often be a similarly easy or difficult scenario.