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Industry Trends Highlights 2006 p5 of 6:

• Automotive sector to drive industrial robotics
  APRIL 10--In a recent report on robotics, the ARC Advisory Group (Dedham, MA, USA; www.arcweb.com) notes that the market for industrial robotics is being driven by investments in the automotive sector and strong growth among small and medium-sized businesses.
• Machine-vision market study forecasts growth
  APRIL 6--A new market study shows that 2005 was a good year for the machine-vision and imaging industry and that continued growth is expected in 2006.
• AUTOMATICA to show growth in product innovations
  MARCH 31--According to officials, the automation sector has recently been quiet for manufacturers of robotics, machine-vision systems, and assembly and handling technology while they have been busy upgrading their technology. What the future has in store will be on display at the exhibition stands at AUTOMATICA between May 16 and 19, 2006, in Munich, Germany.
• Machine Vision China reveals emerging industry
  MARCH 30--Although it was held in a Soviet-era hall, the China International Machine Vision Exhibition in Shanghai (March 22-24) displayed the potential of a 21st Century industry that is beginning rapid growth in support of a booming economy.
• Growth in end-user sectors boosts SMT demand
  MARCH 30--The development of high-growth end-user industries is opening up lucrative opportunities in the European surface-mount-technology (SMT) placement equipment market.
• SID 2006 organizers expect record attendance
  MARCH 30--Organizers of the Society for Information Display (SID; San Jose, CA) 2006 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition (SID 2006) expect this year's event to be the biggest and best in the organization's 44-year history.
• LCD monitor shipments rise
  MARCH 21--DisplaySearch (Austin, TX; www.displaysearch.com) indicated in its latest Quarterly Desktop Monitor Shipment and Forecast Report that worldwide LCD desktop-monitor shipments grew 11% Q/Q and 48% Y/Y to 31.4M units in Q4'05.
• Value for continuous monitoring market will reach $32 billion in 2010
  MARCH 9--According to a new technical market-research report, The Continuous Monitoring Market (RG-299), from Business Communication Co. (BCC) Research (www.bccresesarch.com), the global continuous monitoring market will grow from $21 billion in 2005 to $32.4 billion in 2010.
• IPC releases new IMS/PCB book-to-bill ratios for January 2006
  FEBRUARY 24--IPC--Association Connecting Electronics Industries (Bannockburn, IL), a global trade association of 2300 member companies representing all facets of the electronic interconnection industry, including design, printed-circuit-board manufacturing, and electronics assembly, has announced its findings from its monthly Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program.
• Study says smart cameras drive machine-vision growth
  FEBRUARY 14--Manufacturers of vision-system technologies are finding it extremely challenging to keep pace with developments in the semiconductor industry.

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