Replacement and repair of this equipment should provide at least a short term revenue opportunity for companies such as KLA-Tencor, Flexstar, Teradyne and Xyratex as well as a host of other component and hard disk drive assembly and test equipment companies .

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Ericsson will take on the design, development and sales of the LTE multimode thin modem products, including 2G, 3G and 4G multimode, while ST will take on the existing ST-Ericsson products, other than LTE multimode thin modems, and related business as well as certain assembly and test facilities.

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Based upon the use and layout of the flooded facilities the sort of equipment that may be most likely to be needed include: back end drive testers, metrology and process measurement equipment, rowbar and slider process equipment (for head manufacturing), automation and material handling equipment and other specialized equipment used in recording head and other component manufacturing, as well as drive assembly and test equipment.

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We have a process during the assembly of the spacecraft called Assembly Test and Launch Operations (ATLO).

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Take, for example, the semiconductor market: Here you have a market that has created employment sectors on its own merit, but has also created support markets in software, fabrication equipment, assembly, packaging, test and chemicals, etc.

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An incident at his school when he was a teenager, which the court heard was a chlorine attack on an assembly, had only involved a test tube and no-one was hurt, Mr Railton said.

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