How big is the sales force of Agilent Automation Solution?
For Agilent Automation Solution, we have about 30 direct sales people in the US and Europe. But we are also working with 300 Asia Pacific sales people of Agilent Technologies who understand our products. And almost 500 salesforce in America and Europe, who are getting trained on automation solution products and who also help in the sales for automation solutions. For 30 to 800 sales force, we have a very huge opportunity in front of us. Do you have any plans of setting up a manufacturing plant for automation systems in Singapore? We are already working on a schedule to manufacture all instruments related to automation in Singapore to respond to the growing demands in Asia. We are planning to start with a couple of equipments that will be going live in a couple of month’s time. Currently, our automation instruments are manufactured in the US. And we are going to expand manufacturing of automation instruments in Singapore. With this we will be setting up additional capabilities here in S
