Marconi still has some of the rag-bag of smaller industrial interests from its past, such as medical electronics systems, petrol pumps and retail automation.
Designers of medical devices, electronics, automobiles and consumer products all use these services.
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Aerospace, medical equipment, electronics, even pockets of the plastics and rubber products industry are still growing, says the National Association of Manufacturers.
One of America's most admired CEOs, he used hundreds of acquisitions to build Tyco into a sprawling empire that makes ADT burglar alarms and garbage bags, medical equipment and electronics.
That invention has already had interest from a slew of major electronics and medical device companies.
These individuals and organizations represent many industries, including automotive, consumer electronics, medical, aerospace, packaging, household appliances, furniture, sporting goods, and toys.
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The companies believe this has the potential to change product development in industries including medical device, consumer electronics, automotive and aerospace.
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Investors chose to focus on the outlook given by Philips, which sells medical equipment, consumer electronics and is the world's biggest lighting maker.
Its products include removable and embedded memory cards used in many electronics, including medical devices and notebook computers.
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Had we regulated the electronics industry as tightly as the medical industry, then much of the diagnostic and informatic equipment that we now take for granted would not have been invented here.
This will require a confluence of a wide range of approaches from engineering (electronics, robotics and ergonomics) and medical fields.
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Personally, I have no interest in undergoing medical treatment just so I can spend more money on consumer electronics.
It also ended its liquid-crystal display venture with rival Samsung, while inking a new capital alliance with Japanese electronics and camera maker Olympus Corp. to strengthen its medical equipment business.
MC10 might be best known for its wearable electronics aimed at athletes, but the company also makes a medical diagnostic sticker called a biostamp.
His company works with more than 27, 000 businesses in the global arena in order to help them both design and service products in manufacturing industries such as industrial equipment, automotive, high tech and electronics, aerospace and defense, retail, consumer, and medical devices.
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Japanese electronics firms have been pushing into areas such as green energy and medical devices as they try to stem losses and move away from an emphasis on consumer products.
These technologies are fundamental to the world's growing image sensor industry, with sales of over two billion units annually, and found in almost every consumer electronics device including smart phones, automobiles, tablets, televisions, gaming platforms, medical equipment and digital cameras.
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Diversity has probably helped: besides its traditional strengths in electronics and software development, Cambridge has a healthy (and relatively recession-proof) medical-technology sector, and has branched out into biotechnology over the past couple of decades.
Now, John Rogers of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who is one of the pioneers of flexible electronics, has devised a new technique to create ultra-thin and flexible circuits suitable for medical use.
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