As manufacturing processes become increasingly sophisticated, machine builders and other users of proximity, photoelectric and linear displacement sensors in their designs are demanding more functionality from their sensors. But times have been tough for suppliers says VDC. According to their analysts, if suppliers are to boost the low, and at times negative, growth rates of the past four years, it will be necessary for them to deliver new or enhanced technologies to meet the emerging and sometimes specialized needs of production equipment builders serving diverse markets. A past Venture Development Corp. (VDC, www.vdc-corp.com) market study totaled the U.S.
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