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Sophisticated electronic translators can serve as electronic dictionaries that enable users to convert common phrases to their equivalent in another language. Tandy Corp offers a range of translators that can store up to 4,000 words in several languages. Seiko Corp offers a range of translators that convert words from several languages and also offers electronic phrasebooks that can convert phrases as well. A top-end electronic translator is the Interpreter II offered by Innovations Ltd. It is a device that can translate up to 65,000 words and phrases in five European languages and can also provide advanced digitized speech capabilities. The Interpreter II retails at 149.95 pounds sterling, the Seiko translators retail at 69.95 pounds sterling, and the Tandy line retails at 49.95 pounds sterling.
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Cummins Engine Company Inc has successfully adopted modern manufacturing techniques in several of its UK factories. The Darlington factory was redesigned in 1985 and has become one of the most advanced automated assembly plants in Europe. The Darlington factory features Cummin's assembly information management system (AIMS), which provides a link between the manufacturing technologies and communications protocols of six different suppliers. The AIMS system is run on an IBM 3081 mainframe computer and links communications and marketing services between Cummin's UK and European manufacturing and office centers. The Darlington facility also features custom-designed just-in-time inventory systems, kandan scheduling methods, and Cummin's total quality system.
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The pentop computer provides users with an electric pen that can be used to input handwritten notes into a small laptop PC using a special digitizing tablet. The electric pen can also be used to operate programs in much the same way that an electronic mouse does. Pentop computers read handwritten input using either one of two methods, by character recognition and by the storage of handwritten inputs as electronic images. However, given the limitations of these two methods, pentop computers, as a rule, are able only to recognize clearly printed handwritten characters.
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