SMC global market . “ We have a catalogue of products - way over a million parts that we sell - and we ' re able to customise those parts . We work with our customers to understand their applications . We ' re trying not to just sell components . We want to work with our end users . We want to work with our machine builders to make sure that we are delivering value in our products , to what they ' re trying to build , to what they ' re trying to release to their end users and to their customers .
“ When you think about the number of engineers and salespeople we have around the globe , I believe we are uniquely capable of providing that to all our customers in a way that our competitors can ' t . We are also extremely healthy , so we can spend the capital we need to make sure that we can provide new capabilities as fast as possible .
“ SMC has invested more than US $ 130m in the last two years , on increasing our capabilities in IT . That ’ s primarily along the lines of our private cloud journey , and security implementations . But it ’ s also in our capabilities of streamlining and optimising processes for communication , as well as collaboration amongst multiple departments and divisions across the
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