(Read part one of this two-part look at SCREEN here.)

Screen Holdings Co., formerly Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., is based in Kyoto, Japan. Today, the company has an annual revenue of about US$4.0 billion. While they have manufacturing sites around the globe, the Truepress Jet 520 presses are all manufactured in Japan. The company has more than 6,000 employees worldwide with an impressive 92% of their workforce in R&D, engineering, and technical positions. They proudly spend about $300K a day on R&D in its three core technologies.

To maximize the strengths of each of these developments across multiple disciplines, including precise imaging, fluid management, jetting, scanning, inspection, and data analysis SCREEN created White Canvas Rakusai. It is an agnostic industry think tank where “all divisions use similar technology which is then adapted to the specific purpose.” Interestingly, they open up this think tank outside their internal groups to partners and even competitors as well. The philosophy seems to be that if we work together, we can all benefit from our collective experiences. It seems to work as evidenced by the number one position in global share of its equipment in the fields of Semiconductor production, Flat Panel Display Production and Coating and a leader in Printed Circuit Board equipment.