In 1946, Piaggio SpA (Pontedera, Italy) created the world’s first mass-produced scooter, the Vespa. Almost 60 years later, the Vespaand Piaggioare still going strong and adapting with the times.
Ink-jet printers will mature into automated manufacturing machines to mass-produce fully functional toys, radios and other devices if a research program at the University of California (Berkeley, CA) is successful.
Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., a supplier of electronic components for the personal telecommunications market, recently purchased two Asymtek (Carlsbad, CA) Millennium M-620 dispensing systems to equip its printed circuit board (PCB) facility in Osaka, Japan.
Winning a large contract to supply internal antennas for the mobile phone market proved to be more difficult than component manufacturer N&R Engineering’s (Lancashire, England) management team had hoped.