"Storage equipment," meanwhile, refers to temporary storage facilities for LCDs at intermediate stages of production. Tera Autotech has developed storage systems for factories producing the larger eighth-generation glass substrates. These enormous 15-meter-tall, 1,000-square-meter units are filled with cassette holders housing the substrates, but weigh less than 20 metric tons--about 26 % less than Japanese-made storage systems.
隨著面板愈做愈大，目前高橋已開發出 8 代廠的倉儲設施，高達 3 層樓、面積 1,000 平方公尺的龐然支架上，有一格格放置卡匣的裝置，重量卻不到 20 公噸，比日本的倉儲機台輕 26 %。