Metal-forming technologies are used to shape hard industrial metals like steel, iron and aluminum into the components that are needed to make everything from computers and iPads to cars and trucks.
"There's been 15 years of computers doing everything perfectly and locking everything together and making it all sound very sharp and designed, " he says.
Even the boot-strappers of the bunch aim to make significant investments in the coming year in everything from computers and office space to new product launches and crucial research and development.
Nosbusch was pitching Rockwell's factory controls--nests of computers and sensors that drive tools, conveyors and ovens churning out everything from cars to detergent.
While many of us are busy ferreting out the best deals on everything from tablet computers and diamond earrings to talking Furby dolls and Chia Pets, experts advise that this is also the best time of the year to garner the deepest discounts on a new car or truck.
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Skillman also recommended that manufacturers embrace emerging trends like gesture recognition, the convergence of phones, TVs and computers and the move to embed Web browsers in everything from printers to cars.
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Everything we do now involves computers, and computers produce data as a natural by-product.
After all, computer visionaries like Bill Gates and Michael Dell talked about how computers would change everything.
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China's coastal urban middle classes have been bingeing on everything from life insurance to cars and computers.
It also has a vast consulting force able to drive sales of everything from servers to printers and desktop computers.
And since everything the soldiers do is recorded by their computers, data from the mission can be analysed afterwards.
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"We do it by teaching computers to read everything that is reported or shared on the internet, and automatically produce interesting social content about it, " it says on its site.
Before the 1980s suppliers of chips for everything from computers to radios mostly spent big sums to design chips themselves and churn them out in their own factories.
But later on it will benefit from the technical advances of countries with a comparative advantage in faster-growing industries, which will give it better computers, more advanced drugs and so forth than if every country had tried to make everything for itself.
They do everything from making the chips that go into electronic devices to designing, building and marketing the computers, mobile phones and other gadgets that use them.
He's thinking of everything from locator tags for pets and packages, to chips embedded in portable products like cameras and computers.
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