附註:Abstracts & keywords; Editorial; Viewpoint -- Problems of scale; Company news; Tutorial -- Product miniaturization requires automation -- but with a strategy; Feature -- Trends in outsourced manufacturing -- Reducing risk and maintaining flexibility when moving to an outsourced model; Feature -- Robotic production assistants for working alongside the human operator; Feature -- A time of change for welding; Feature -- Novarc brings sprayformed tooling to market; Feature -- Rapid tooling for casting prototypes; Research article -- Aligning parts for micro assemblies.