Manufacture In Scotland Today Essay Research Paper

Manufacture In Scotland Today Essay, Research Paper

Contents

Contents page

Page 1

Introduction

Page 2

Electronics

Page 3

Semiconductors

Page 5

Aerospace

Page 6

Automotive

Page 7

Conclusion

Page 8

References

Page 9

.Manufacturing In Scotland Today.

Introduction

This report is not so much on the state

of the manufacturing industry in Scotland but rather of it.s current success.

Scottish productivity consistently ranks among the highest worldwide and

multinational companies have expanded their presence in Scotland to capitalise

on this.

Due to the extent of the manufacturing

industry in Scotland I am going to focus on four areas these being: Electronics,

Semiconductors, Aerospace and Automotive manufacture. Other major areas

of manufacture in Scotland include Biotechnology (which I will touch upon

later), Food (with annual sales totalling £7.3 billion) and Textiles.

Scotland is the home to around 550 electronics

companies including multinational giants such as IBM, Compaq, Motorola,

Matsushita and Phillips. Scotland also has one of the highest concentrations

of semiconductor fabrication companies in Europe including NEC, Motorola,

National Semiconductors and Raytheon Systems. While the Scottish aerospace

industry comprises of 52 companies including BAE Aerostructures, GEC Marconi

Radar and Control Systems, Greenwich Caledonian, Rohr, Bond Helicopters

and Woodward Governor and it has world-class expertise in electronics,

plastics and aluminium founding, all of which are increasingly important

in automotive manufacture.

All these companies chose Scotland. Home

to Europe’s most experienced electronics work-force the Scots are known

worldwide for their work ethic, as well as for their skills and initiative

they are praised for low turnover rates, low absenteeism, and high levels

of responsiveness to training and new technologies. Partly this can be

put down to Scotland.s educational system which places particular emphasis

on electrical engineering, science, mathematics and computer-related studies.

Also producing more engineering graduates per capita than all other EU

nations.

Scotland also offers the ideal location

for companies requiring access to the European market through access to

Europe in a matter of hours with it.s modern airports, motorways, deep

water seaports and advanced rail freight connections with Europe.

Electronics

The so called Silicon Glen area of Central

Scotland is one of the most concentrated areas of electronics activity

in Europe. Home to many companies from America, Japan, as well as European

multi-nationals and of course independent Scottish companies.

Many leading electronics companies have

operations in Scotland, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Canon, Compaq,

Packard Bell, NEC, Sun Microsystems and Mitsubishi. Altogether they employ

41,000 people, with another 29,900 supporting directly. Total product sales

of the Scottish electronics sector amounted to £15.5 billion in 1996

with Scotland producing:

. 32% of personal computers made

in Europe,

. more than 7% of the world.s PCs,

. 80% of Europe’s workstations,

. 29% of Europe.s notebooks and

. 65% of Europe’s automated banking

machines.

Optoelectronics

Electrical and optical engineering is Scotland.s

largest manufacturing area representing 23% of the countries total manufacturing.

Scotland is a world leader in optoelectronics

with the likes of Pilkington Optronics a major developer in military optical

systems including periscopes, military laser range finders and thermal

imaging systems. GEC Marconi avionics also use their military expertise

in laser targeting and guidance systems. Edinburgh Instruments manufacture

all kinds of state of the art lasers. VLSI Vision have developed a new

single-chip video camera which is being used used in security systems,

medical and automotive products not to mention personal computers and children’s

toys. Microlase also develop lasers for use in biotechnology and semiconductor

research.

Telecommunications

Scotland is home to four of the worlds

top ten telecommunications companies including Motorola, Cisco, Lucent

and 3Com. Motorola a world leader in portable communications systems operates

from Scotland manufacturing a wide range of products, including mobile

phones, for the European market. Hewlett-Packard also who have been operating

a plant in Scotland for over 30 years where they manufacture products for

testing telecommunications systems.

Information Systems

Scotland has been at the forefront of the

global information systems industry for over 40 years

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