Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: StanX Long who wrote (64322)	6/12/2002 1:03:25 AM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Things are looking up at least in the Philippine, Stan Japan's Sankyo Seiki Crafts Tiny Unmanned Assembly Line sg.news.yahoo.com TOKYO, June 12 Asia Pulse - Sankyo Seiki Mfg. Co. (TSE:7757) said Tuesday it has created a small unmanned motor assembly line, which is one-fifth the size of earlier versions, and will install it in its Philippine plant in October. Each machine has a footprint no bigger than an A5-size sheet of paper. The "desktop factory" to be set up in the Philippines will be just 2.5 meters long by 70cm wide for manufacturing motors for hard-disk drives. The air inside each machine has been purified, eliminating the need to enclose the assembly line in a clean room, helping to lower capital outlays by two-thirds. Some of the devices, including the scrubbers, will be offered for external sale. (Nikkei)