He says his company can compete because of speed of delivery, superior engineering skills making tailor-made products and high precision equipment.

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The globalisation of supply chains has created a need to send electronics, computer components, precision equipment and the like around the world quickly.

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While Southeast Asian factories may turn out gadgets more cheaply than southeast Tokyo can, only Ota's artisans have the skills to refine precision equipment and create the molds used in Asia's complex assembly lines.

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Last year he approached Safreno, whose company, Trust Automation, builds high-precision robotic equipment.

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Deutschmarks, yen and dollars spent to procure sophisticated equipment like high precision machine tools is hard currency not available to buy technology appropriate to meeting the highest economic priority satisfying domestic consumer demands.

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And as one who doesn't do valve design, drilling bits, precision flow monitoring or pigging equipment, lots of the kit on display at the Offshore Europe exhibition in Aberdeen this week leaves me a bit cold.

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It was an open secret, after the Kosovo war, that American commanders were disappointed by their allies' lack of precision-guided weapons, electronic-warfare equipment and secure communications.

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