1.   Circuits are smaller now, engineers are overworked and more chip production is automated, so chip graffiti is starting to fade.

2.   Like automating Twinkie production, Kewill.net can simplify life for a customer such as maternity and infant clothing retailer Mothercare.

3.   The Billerica, Mass. company makes systems and software that automate the production of semiconductors.

4.   Where others have automated production to keep down costs, Rolls-Royce still brags that it takes five hours to put the sheen on the radiator.