This document discusses several topics related to manufacturing, technology trends, and Advantech's position as a market leader. It covers shifts in manufacturing as a percentage of GDP across nations, emerging industries like the Internet of Things, demographic changes, the future of software, green technology, transportation, and communication networks. It emphasizes that Advantech provides complete solutions through components, software, services and partnerships. In the final section, it provides an overview of Advantech as a leading industrial computing company with worldwide employees and sales broken down by product lines.