None, This is a purely English-base thesis

Rugged notebook had been widely deployed into industrial fields with harness environment usage environments for exceeding many decades, which significantly helps users to accomplish most of works in participating critical missions. The major advantages for rugged notebook contained several features and advantages outbidding with conventional commercial devices, such as widely temperature operation, higher drop-down distance protection, sunlight readable display, harness environmental allowance, water-proof, dust-proof, highly integrated, and sometimes anti-explode compliance in specific application fields such as oil industry, mining filed, etc.

Taiwanese ODM players almost put more resource on consumer electronic devices business since 1980, who created a lot of miracle of economic growth in Taiwan. However, rugged notebook had become another “blue ocean” business segment that allows outstanding ODM players trying to penetrate and invest by leveraging massive engineering forces and its well-established manufacturing capacity. In reaching from “rugged notebook” segmentation, the top 3 key players worldwide were identified, that is Panasonic, Dell/EMC and Getec (2018, market survey), which dominated rugged notebook market for more than 76% globally.

This research thesis is trying to make competitive analysis among those 3 keys rugged notebook players in, so to speak, particular application fields, and helps to identify business strategies for Taiwanese ODM makers who allows to approach with business engagement, and retains technological leading edge in beloved island here, in Taiwan. It is highly expectation to get assistance with ODM players while makes business growth and prospective.

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Seminar
2019 全球六大產業趨勢論壇, December/2019, 經濟部國際貿易局
2020 全球投資戰略大解密, December/2019, 財訊出版社