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Unfortunately, the cost accounting systems most companies use are so inadequate that they actually hinder the ability to make good management decisions.

In asynchronous assembly systems, modular pallet-transfer conveyors get the right parts to the right spot, at the right time.

Sanmina-SCI's electronics assembly facility has reported a 63 percent reduction in paste wastage by fitting one of its stencil printers with a paste-level sensor from DEK International GmbH.

To help it engineer the most effective machine vision system, Actimed turned to Xyntek Inc.

Motion errors of less than 10 microns can be expected from large-format air-bearing stages, but even that is not acceptable for some FPD processes.

New orders for industrial robots jumped 28 percent through September 2003.

Spectra Technologies Inc. and BioAssembly Inc. developed a digital printing machine that can create living tissue layer by layer.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology for automobiles holds a great deal of promise.

Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. are setting rigorous new targets for price cuts by their parts suppliers.

Northrop Gruman Corp. has opened Kester University.