Tag: taiwan
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DFI’s Bridge Crane solution provides one-off customization and worry-free management
Industrial computing specialist DFI has unveiled its Bridge Crane solution, which it says provides one-off customization and worry-free management An overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in industrial environments. An overhead crane consists of parallel runways with a traveling bridge spanning the gap. A hoist, the lifting component…
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Techman Robot establishes new training center in Taiwan
Techman Robot, a manufacturer of collaborative robots, has established a new training center in Taiwan. Affected by the coronavirus pandemic and the global economic situation, the industrial supply chain has been reorganizing, and the return of manufacturers has emerged. In response to the demand for new and expanded production capacity, Techman Robot announces its cooperation…
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Apacer launches ‘first’ memory module to meet specific aviation standard
Apacer, a manufacturer of industrial-grade memory, has released the XR-DIMM. The company says the new rugged memory module is the first on the market to meet the standards of the US RTCA DO-160G test, an aviation equipment certification that marks the XR-DIMM as resistant to high levels of vibration and therefore “ideal for defense and…
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Foxconn boss reiterates commitment to build factory in Wisconsin
Foxconn boss Terry Gou has reiterated his commitment to building a multi-million-dollar factory in Mount Pleasant, in the US state of Wisconsin. The chairman of Foxconn, which is better known as Hon Hai Precision in its native Taiwan, met with US President Donald Trump at the White House earlier this week. After the meeting, media…
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Panasonic says it has sold 100 million household refrigerators
Panasonic says its production of household refrigerators reached a grand total of 100 million in 2018, 65 years since the company first began to manufacture them in 1953. Panasonic began working on refrigerators as well as televisions and washing machines in anticipation of the approaching electrical age after the Second World War. In 1952 an…
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Foxconn boss Terry Gou considers automating the entire population of Taiwan
Foxconn boss Terry Gou has confirmed that he is considering running for president in Taiwan’s general election next year, according to the South China Morning Post. “I will decide in the next two days whether to run for president,” Gou told reporters at a seminar in Taipei earlier today. “I hardly slept last night thinking…
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UMC takes 100 per cent ownership of Fujitsu’s semiconductor business unit
United Microelectronics Corporation has agreed to acquire all of the shares of Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor, a 300mm wafer foundry joint venture between both companies. United Microelectronics Corporation is said to be the first semiconductor company established in Taiwan back in 1980. In addition to the 15.9 per cent of MIFS shares currently owned by UMC,…
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Country Insight: Taiwan gets smart about manufacturing
Taiwan is a relatively large island nation a couple of hundred kilometres off the coast of China. It has a population of less than 25 million and its economy is one of the largest in Asia, and many people around the world associate Taiwan with advanced electronics manufacturing. Some of the largest and most well-known…
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Fujitsu partners with FamilyMart to trial robotic grocery store
Fujitsu and FamilyMart have started a field trial to introduce digital technologies including robots and blockchain at a FamilyMart shop in Taiwan. Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Taiwan will deliver a customer experience that includes store guidance using the communication robot, Robopin, a content delivery service, FlowSign Light, which utilizes visible light communications, and the video…
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Taiwan launches its first satellite into space
Taiwan has launched its first domestically designed satellite into space. The satellite will be used for Earth observation. The Danish National Space Institute supplied equipment for the satellite and DTU Space representative Professor John Leif Jørgensen says this enables it to have “a very high degree of precision and flexibility for satellite navigation”. The satellite itself…