Smart Manufacturing Technology Calls for Smart Investment

摘要

COMPARED TO HIGHLY visible "mass" markets such as automotive electronics and smartphones, it's easy to think of the market for industrial electronics as "niche." However, in total, about 23% of PCBs produced worldwide are used in electronics equipment for manufacturing applications. If we include categories that are obviously non-consumer, such as telecom equipment, data-center computing, and solar/wind-power conversion, storage, and smart-grid control within our concept of industrial electronics, it's clear this sector is extremely important to the world's electronics producers.