Canon: more than just cameras
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Canon Inc of Japan focuses on office automation in its diversified product line, which continues to move away from manufacturing only cameras. A move into the plain-paper copier market helped the company double overall sales from 1970 to 1975. The next move was into laser printers for the microcomputer market. Canon now manufactures products ranging from digital color copiers to facsimile transceivers. In the first half of 1990, business machines made up 80 percent of Canon's consolidated sales. The company plans to enter the computer, workstation and software market in the next decade. Several research facilities are operated by Canon: six in Japan and one each at Stanford University, Costa Mesa, CA, Guildford, Surrey, UK, Rennes, France, and Australia. Canon is among the top eight corporations receiving patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office in the six years ending in 1989. Two reasons for the company's success are emphasis on product-oriented research and on the internationalization of Canon production.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1990
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Ingredients for a booming start-up: collaboration, communications, consensus
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Cisco Systems Inc attributes much of its recent success to the use of concurrent engineering (CE). The company, which makes multimedia and multiprotocol internetworking products, increased its revenues from $27 million in 1989 to $70 million in 1990, and in the first half of 1991 it has already recorded $76 million in sales. In 1989 the company was encountering problems resulting from poor communication between engineering and manufacturing departments. Weekly review meetings were held at which engineering, manufacturing and sales staff discussed product failures and other such problems. The meetings helped cut the cost of a multiport communications interface (MCI) card providing as many as two Ethernet connections and two serial connections. How the implementation of CE helped the product development and manufacturing process in other areas of the company is described.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1991
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Big display is all done with mirrors
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Reflection Technology (Waltham, MA) offers an ultraminiature 'virtual' display that produces an image greater in size than the display itself. When mounted, users can work hands-free and are able to move around and to view information from remote or portable electronic products. The Private Eye displays 720 by 280 pixels that can be formatted as 25 lines of text with 80 characters per line, or used for graphics. Achieving a high resolution and running on low power have been obstacles to other vendors attempting to produce such a display. The high quality of the lens is due to the 280 LEDs, staggered left and right. Private Eye is priced at $499.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1990
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