When they do manufacture those vehicles, they will manufacture them on assembly lines that are configured differently than existing assembly lines.
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A few repairmen prowl the automated assembly lines with tools.
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She painted houses and wrapped candy on factory assembly lines.
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If it collapsed suddenly, some carmakers' assembly lines would halt.
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In other words, Tesla's assembly lines are moving into overdrive.
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It has the suppliers, the assembly lines, the workers, the expertise.
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They said some assembly lines at the plant were not operating.
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That depends on how long the assembly lines are shut down.
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The company has been running its assembly lines around the clock.
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Assembly lines that make General Motors cars and Apple iPhones standing silent.
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There were problems in battery manufacturing, parts construction, development of assembly lines.
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Without workers to run the machines and the assembly lines, production lagged.
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Interestingly, Winchester also discusses the social implications of precision on assembly lines.
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Satellite assembly lines Soon, however, Earth's orbit will become far more crowded.
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Carwardine used that principle to create an articulating lamp for factory assembly lines.
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These aren't mass produced on factory assembly lines like a cheap digital Casio.
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Grand schemes and sudden strokes of genius do not power automotive assembly lines.
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The company suffered months of delays because of hangups on its assembly lines.
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Mr. Shao and Ms. Yu plan to build three fully automated assembly lines.
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Duggal sterilized its 000,000-square-foot greenhouse space to house multiple assembly lines.
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Assembly lines that make General Motors cars and Apple iPhones are standing silent.
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Tesla ultimately wants to automate as much of its assembly lines as possible.
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To man its assembly lines, Germany invited workers from southern Europe and especially Turkey.
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Designing assembly lines to build more than one type of vehicle dates back decades.
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There are assembly lines, conveyor belts, forklifts, "just like Henry Ford," Mr. Maguire said.
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While assembly lines predated Taylor and Ford, Ford famously optimized the process for mass production.
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In the commercial world, robots often work on assembly lines or move stuff across warehouses.
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It was about assembly lines and automation and separating workers from the value they're creating.
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Analysts said underlying output on the company's assembly lines did not appear to be disrupted.
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General Motors has cut production at four U.S. assembly lines, costing 4,400 workers their jobs.
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Rafael Hernandez is the founder of Slined, a company that designs high-tech assembly lines.
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But it could be weeks before the new supplies start rolling off the assembly lines.
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The two remaining assembly lines now employ about 2,500 unionized workers and 300 salaried employees.
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After struggling for months to streamline two assembly lines inside its factory in Fremont, Calif.
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Sure, robots have been working on assembly lines for decades, but they're just the muscle.
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In 2016, the company starting adding second assembly lines in its kitchens for digital orders.
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Last year 150,000 pianos rolled off its assembly lines, almost a third of global production.
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Small, cheap satellites — costing less than $1 million each— are now rolling off assembly lines.
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It took a lot of cash to build assembly lines and movie studios, of course.
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But the wage increase has translated to higher costs for companies with assembly lines in China.
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The automaker's assembly lines came to a halt in mid-September and have been idle since.
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If Mexico stopped importing American car parts, for example, it would hurt its own assembly lines.
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Items that would've been exported will see some assembly lines move to Southeast Asia, Mattios said.
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Future Gigafactories will likely include vehicle assembly lines too, making the whole process even more efficient.
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Its cashflow crisis has led to delays in paying suppliers and left some assembly lines idle.
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There are automated assembly lines, and robotic arms lifting tabletops that were once hauled by men.
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Go to college, they're told, and qualify to do well-paid work away from assembly lines.
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Elsewhere standardization swept through industry, and assembly lines alienated workers from the fruits of their labor.
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Unlike the Washington state assembly lines, the plant, which has about 7,000 workers, is not unionized.
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Mexico's south, where a quarter of the population lives, has ox-drawn ploughs rather than assembly lines.
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Systems of Intelligence are like Ford Assembly Lines and Toyota Production Systems – powerful weapons for competitive advantage.
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Auto-makers typically share parts across new models, and sometimes build different models on shared assembly lines.
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She took a series of temporary jobs on factory assembly lines and elsewhere while honing her craft.
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Some economists blamed the rise in claims on automobile manufacturers shutting down assembly lines for annual retooling.
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Then they attached the hand to a robot arm that is commonly used in industrial assembly lines.
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Hyundai's decision to power down assembly lines at home could delay its recovery from a sales slump.
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Claims could become volatile in the coming weeks as automobile manufacturers close assembly lines for annual retooling.
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The closures include assembly lines in Naberezhnye Chelny and St. Petersburg, and an engine plant in Elabuga.
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The overwhelming majority of what comes off those assembly lines heads to showrooms in the United States.
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There's something undeniably entrancing about the looping efficiency of the myriad assembly lines in Our Daily Bread.
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Once-quiet factories are alive again, with assembly lines churning out the components of a clean-energy age.
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The parts bin approach and unchanged design mean that Apple can make it cheaply with established assembly lines.
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"One of them is predictable physical activities, such as assembly lines, for instance, in manufacturing environments," Chui said.
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As it starts to slow down its assembly lines, those razor-thin margins could evaporate quickly, analysts said.
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Go deeper: We went inside the territory's battle-ready campuses, where protesters prepared Molotov cocktails on assembly lines.
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The strike is the longest walkout at G.M. since 1970, when workers halted assembly lines for 67 days.
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He repeatedly went over stewards' heads and appealed directly to workers, sometimes turning up on factory assembly lines.
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There is little chance BMW will change its plans and move the assembly lines to the United States.
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Without the anticipated level of demand from the Gulf heavyweight, Airbus said its assembly lines would dry up.
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After complaining to an HR representative, Ferro was repeatedly moved to different assembly lines, but the harassment didn't stop.
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Speculative execution is as fundamental to the working of modern chips as assembly lines are to a modern factory.
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Robotic arms have already joined humans on assembly lines and in factories, but they often pose a safety risk.
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Because of the large number of foreign-made parts used on American assembly lines, the cost could be substantial.
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So those planes' assembly lines, and their suppliers, are going slow, even as the output of smaller planes soars.
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Robots are no longer limited to traditional blue-collar jobs, fully automated assembly lines and high-frequency trading algorithms.
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Mr Rajan thinks SoftWear's Sewbot T-shirt assembly lines will be able to turn out 3,300 items a day.
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That is more electricity than the U.S. industrial sector consumed in 2015 for agriculture, assembly lines and construction combined.
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Elkhart County is a manufacturing hub, with assembly lines that produce recreational vehicles, as well as trucks and buses.
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"We're the assembly lines 23 years ago," said Mr. Yi, the co-founder of the data factory in Henan.
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Musk is planning to spend billions over the next few years building new assembly lines for the Model 3.
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But the real transformation was internal to the millions who labored on the assembly lines at Mirafiori and elsewhere.
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From automated assembly lines to warehouses and now to chemical plants and refineries, robots are making their presence felt.
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One major point of contention is the fate of two iconic assembly lines that GM has targeted for closure.
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Claims tend to be volatile around this time of the year when automobile manufacturers normally idle assembly lines for retooling.
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She was standing in a room with seven metal assembly lines on which mechanical tools drew images from art history.
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Living things make molecules through a series of chemical reactions, similar to how car makers produce cars on assembly lines.
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Claims tend to be volatile around this time of the year when automobile manufacturers typically idle assembly lines for retooling.
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Panasonic, which makes components used in smartphones and assembly lines, said it had stopped shipments of some components to Huawei.
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Since they go on sale later in the year the final batches are not yet rolling off the assembly lines.
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China is now the world's largest robot maker, producing 53,900 industrial robots (typically, machines used in assembly lines) in 2017.
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Another opportunity is to improve manufacturing through computer-vision systems that can inspect products on assembly lines and spot flaws.
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Mr Massri hopes as many as 6,000 cars and as many trucks will be rolling off assembly lines by 2021.
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Since they go on sale later in the year, the final batches are not yet rolling off the assembly lines.
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Half of GM's 12 assembly lines are operating below 80% capacity, generally the break-even point for a plant's profitability.
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But the expansion plans cannot mask the challenges Tesla faces on the assembly lines at its auto plant in California.
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The shift toward technology is also likely to change the types of vehicles rolling off assembly lines, industry analysts said.
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But whether there is an official order or not, it will take some time for assembly lines to spool up.
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By 1979, Eve Arnold was shooting color, her subjects women on communes and assembly lines and handling heavy factory machines.
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As the coronavirus spreads, assembly lines may take longer than expected to restart, causing a chain reaction around the world.
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With conventional manufacturing, companies can't adjust a product until the next scheduled upgrade, because it's expensive to redo assembly lines.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Cook showed Mr. Trump the new Mac Pro, which recently began coming off the plant's assembly lines.
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However, Calhoun said the company is keeping employees on with the intention that they'll return to the assembly lines soon.
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To us, this seems an obviously efficient way to organize work, from automobile assembly lines to "knowledge production" in universities.
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Thus it seems likely that Boeing's assembly lines will return to normal at some point in the first half of 2020.
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Along with the A350 seen here, Airbus assembly lines also cranked out the company's A320, A350, A380 and A350 XWB jetliners.
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Workers on Ford's assembly lines spent entire shifts doing mind-numbingly repetitive work, and many could not stick it for long.
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In a world rapidly changing thanks to the advances of technology, robots have become ubiquitous on assembly lines across the world.
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I DON'T THINK THERE'S MUCH CHANCE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BRING BACK THE ASSEMBLY LINES OF, YOU KNOW, 50 YEARS AGO.
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The factory buildings are more like workshops than the high-tech assembly lines used in the auto and other modern industries.
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Under a tentative pact, G.M. will close one of two assembly lines at its Oshawa, Ontario, plant, its largest in Canada.
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If production is halted, Ford will likely temporarily lay off thousands of workers until it can get assembly lines running again.
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AMLG: So you were doing computer vision for chip manufacturing — on the assembly lines, you'd look for errors in the chips?
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It revealed how the company is trying to break with standard auto-industry practices all along the Model 3 assembly lines.
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FRANKFURT — European auto manufacturers have so far defied expectations that supply chain chaos would bring their assembly lines to a standstill.
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But several companies including BMW, PSA and Toyota have delayed restarting their assembly lines another week and others appear likely to.
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Some believe Kim, who turns 34 years old next week, could have assembly lines going for his new ICBMs this year.
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Go deeper: We went inside the territory's battle-ready campuses last week, where some protesters prepared Molotov cocktails on assembly lines.
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An excellent illustration of simultaneous design is how Toyota handled the introduction of robotics onto its assembly lines in the 1980s.
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At War Inside the government-owned Kansas Army Ammunition Plant, hundreds of civilians worked in close quarters on the assembly lines.
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Typically, the Beluga series has been used by Airbus to transport aircraft wings from factories to its assembly lines in Europe.
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It's not clear when Briggo will start to see its automated coffee houses rolling off the nonexistent assembly lines at Foxconn.
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About 48,000 workers from 55 facilities in nearly a dozen states began manning picket lines instead of assembly lines on Monday.
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Production, though, is many months behind schedule and the company has resorted to setting up assembly lines in temporary tent structures.
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Even though Boeing will save money by shutting production, it will still incur significant costs while its assembly lines are idle.
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The claims data tend to be volatile around this time of the year when automobile manufacturers normally idle assembly lines for retooling.
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That mattered less for the Turkish and Moroccan guest workers who manned Dutch and German assembly lines in the 245s and 1970s.
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It is the technology used in mobile game Pokemon Go, and by industry, such as factories seeking to map new assembly lines.
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Producing lithium-ion batteries at scale is challenging, and manufacturers have to be persuaded to add new materials into their assembly lines.
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Mr. Nighswander is president of APT Manufacturing Solutions, which builds and installs robotic equipment to help other manufacturers automate their assembly lines.
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Those jobs aren't coming back Despite the White House's promises, nothing will restore a 1960s-style mass employment on the assembly lines.
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Such cost reductions are common for game hardware as manufacturers reduce defects on assembly lines and volume discounts for parts kick in.
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Once a tentative agreement is reached, union leaders must vote to end the strike before workers can return to the assembly lines.
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Once a tentative agreement is reached, union leaders must vote to end the strike before workers can return to the assembly lines.
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Without cooperation between the countries to move goods seamlessly across the border, shipping and assembly lines would become slower and more cumbersome.
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Mr. Reuther hoped the union would train future generations of leaders in the contemplative setting far from the toil of assembly lines.
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Claims data tends to be volatile around this time of the year when motor vehicle manufacturers shut assembly lines for annual retooling.
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From announcing all-electric cars to adding assembly lines specifically for plug-in models, auto executives are ramping up their electric vehicle plans.
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During his visit, William toured the assembly lines and met with manufacturing, welding and painting apprentices who work on the site for Bombardier.
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Unlike most car plants, where assembly lines also produce a din, this one is eerily quiet because McLaren's vehicles are assembled by hand.
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This time around, the automation steering the industry forward won't just be on the assembly lines — it'll be right out on the streets.
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Anyone who's seen a documentary on how bread or computers or cars are made knows that there's something oddly compelling about assembly lines.
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Before being bought by Tesla in November, Grohmann helped clients build highly automated and efficient factories, including battery assembly lines for electric cars.
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Everything old is new again Turns out some car manufacturers best "new" ideas are actually ones recycled from assembly lines of the past.
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Pictures of young women on assembly lines making airplane parts and of retired couples tending victory gardens were among the new indelible images.
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The paper said job cuts may be needed as the workers return, since the assembly lines will be run at a slower pace.
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GM's Oshawa plant could shut one of its two assembly lines, with several vehicles already produced elsewhere or expected to move in 2017.
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People form assembly lines to pass supplies across long distances, with protesters communicating what they need through a series of predetermined hand signals.
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"Rivian will have to create assembly lines for its vehicles and batteries, which Tesla's problems have shown is very difficult," writes Mr. Schwartz.
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Before that happens, Rivian will have to create assembly lines for its vehicles and batteries, which Tesla's problems have shown is very difficult.
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But its CEO says it's too soon to say whether that will be enough to keep those assembly lines open and building cars.
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There is widespread concern that assembly lines around the world could be forced to shut down for lack of components made in China.
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Automakers sometimes move production between plants, but doing so can disrupt production and incur costs for new machinery or moving existing assembly lines.
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Rather than fixed assembly lines, the Shanghai factory will make use of a mobile grid that objects will move through as they're built.
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If China embargoed these materials the U.S. would be forced to shut down all or most of our nation's technology manufacturing assembly lines.
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Turns out they're not especially easy to configure, since right now the industry is more focused on factories and assembly lines, not DIY operations.
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But green shoots have begun to appear in recent months, with a steady stream of companies announcing new capacity and upgrading of assembly lines.
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Executives also said that the company has finished renovating restaurants with second assembly lines, which are meant to make delivery and pick-up orders.
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The two factories together make up the bulk of Foxconn's assembly lines for Apple's iPhones, and the delays are likely to impact global shipments.
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To augment the two Model 3 assembly lines already running inside his at-capacity factory in Fremont, California, Musk set up a third line.
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Friday afternoon plant leaders informed workers the facility will be slowing the assembly lines by eliminating one of two shifts starting in mid-June.
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Production changes Volkswagen said that the first model built under its new strategy, the ID, will begin rolling off the assembly lines in 2022.
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Even as the recall slowly moves forward, the problematic airbags are still going into cars and those cars are still rolling off assembly lines.
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New York (CNN Business)Boeing will temporarily shut its assembly lines in the state of Washington for two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Many of the data factory workers are the kinds of people who once worked on assembly lines and construction sites in those big cities.
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Factories were built, licenses were approved and assembly lines began operating in August 2010, just a few months after the government signed the deal.
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Boeing, with 140,000 employees worldwide, says 1 out of every 4 jetliners rolling off its assembly lines is being bought up by Chinese customers.
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Junior employees tend to want to stay awake all day and be seen as energetic, and workers on assembly lines can't just nod off.
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Such statements were fraudulent, according to the lawsuit, given that the automated assembly lines to build the car in such volume were behind schedule.
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" It began ominously: "Detroit, home of mass production, city of assembly lines, maker of weapons in time of war, is the industrial heart of America.
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While both groups make car production gear, FFT specializes on assembly lines but does not supply robots itself, weighing on the valuation, the people said.
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"The Stamping, Body, Paint, and General Assembly lines in China are well underway and hitting records in both line design and fabrication," Guillen's email read.
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The technology can help make light-weight parts made of plastics more quickly and cheaply than traditional assembly lines that require major investments into equipment.
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The disruption to the world's biggest trading relationship has electronics manufacturers, industrial machinery makers and fashion brands working on shifting some of their assembly lines.
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The steady decline prompted GM in early 2017 to go from running assembly lines around the clock at Lordstown to cutting back to two shifts.
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It's estimated Ford lost the production of 70,000 to 80,000 F-150 pickups since shutting down assembly lines at plants in Kansas City and Dearborn.
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The company is building out other facilities, but it's unclear if there's space for the kind of tooling and assembly lines needed for mass production.
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The bulk of the workforce in the electronics industry works on factory assembly lines, making chips for mobiles, assembling smartphones, checking and packing finished products.
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The tech industry shifted from "Web 2.0" and social networking to reinventing logistics and the workforce with self-driving cars and robotic pizza assembly lines.
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Scrambling to turn out its first mass-market electric car, the automaker set up multiple assembly lines and is changing production processes on the fly.
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Several automakers including BMW, PSA and Toyota have delayed restarting their assembly lines in China by another week, and others appear likely to follow suit.
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But the trade war waged by President Trump has caused global supply chains to reorganize and relocate, especially assembly lines for information and communications technologies.
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Ford-esque assembly lines were adopted for the making of all kinds of consumer goods; affordable, standardised and factory-made goods largely replaced craft objects.
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Parts makers that supply US assembly lines could shut down, because the auto plants don't have a place to store massive amounts of unused parts.
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Its use of resources and assembly lines, once grasped, really demonstrates how the war was one of production, and makes that fun at the same time.
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Over the years, the assembly lines operated by major manufacturers spawned a network of smaller suppliers throughout the region, where many parts makers are still based.
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Eventually, the assembly lines that defined the industrial revolution will be replaced by warehouses full of 3D printers churning out fully formed products night and day.
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For auto executives, the threat may have caused headaches, but it didn't force any changes to supply and assembly lines that are firmly entrenched in Mexico.
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According to Henry Wallich, an economist, factories paid workers in kind, with light bulbs or shoes from their assembly lines, or coal intended for their furnaces.
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Almost a decade later, in 1969, the workers from the south on the assembly lines of the north revolted in waves of wildcat strikes and violence.
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Building a new platform takes time; Musk said the Model Y is expected to hit assembly lines in 2020, but could be as early as 2019.
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It has come to all-but-dominate supplying some key components — about 70% of the wiring harnesses used on American assembly lines today coming from Mexico.
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Adèle puts a humanoid face on a challenge that has largely been fed to us through images of giant machine assembly lines or advanced software programs.
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Tests IBM have been conducting include coupling cameras to Watson so they can recognize defects in electronic components zipping through assembly lines in China and Taiwan.
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Andritz plans to reduce Schuler's German manufacturing capacities by shutting down individual production and assembly lines, but no production site will be closed, the spokesman said.
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The disruption to the world's biggest trading relationship has some electronics manufacturers, industrial machinery makers and fashion brands working on shifting some of their assembly lines.
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As a result robots are poised to march off the assembly lines where they perform narrowly defined repetitive tasks and into the wider world of work.
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That falls to data engineers who need to build data assembly lines where they are creating meaningful types to get data usable to the data scientist.
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This is a manufacturing technique developed originally by Japanese firm Toyota that allows assembly lines to receive raw materials and components as required by production schedules.
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With factories there shut down or operating at reduced capacity, assembly lines in the rest of the world are expected to run short of essential components.
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Robots are still too klutzy to take over assembly lines built for humans but could learn how to put together products in a machine-only environment.
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And with the assembly lines idle, G.M. has laid off several thousand workers at its Canadian plants, whose work is tightly integrated with the American factories.
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There is already some capacity at current U.S. plants, and every automaker is looking at how they can squeeze more vehicles out of their current assembly lines.
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Manley would not say how many jobs Fiat Chrysler might add or give a time frame for when those new assembly lines would be up and running.
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The government now wants to develop the world's second-largest economy by upgrading its factory assembly lines to produce high-tech medical devices and cutting-edge robots.
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For instance, Instrumental, a startup created by a former Apple engineer, uses computer vision to scan circuit boards for signs of tampering as they leave assembly lines.
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The bot could be put to a range of uses, says its creators, from working in assembly lines for making tiny circuitboards to assisting in delicate microsurgeries.
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This partly reflects an aggressive push by automakers and industrial firms to develop new software to connect up vehicles, assembly lines and finished products to the Internet.
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This history is all deftly evoked in Visconti's film, which ends after the southerners return from lunch to their shift on the assembly lines of Alfa Romeo.
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The camera takes the audience past row after row of assembly lines in a factory that makes coffeemakers and irons (for clothes, not for whacking golf balls).
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But lower levels of self-driving assistance (levels 85033 and 3) are becoming more common every day, with each new car that rolls off the assembly lines.
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The action led to the coining of a new phrase, "Lordstown Syndrome" — referring to the malaise and depression of young workers who worked on monotonous assembly lines.
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Including the two assembly lines slated to close, GM has 12 assembly plants in the United States, half of which are operating at less than 80% capacity.
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It's an unnatural biosphere, an indoor muscle factory where people run miles in place on assembly lines and lift heavy metal objects while emitting lion sex noises.
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That presents a big risk: investing in technology that may be obsolete by the time large numbers of those vehicles start rolling off assembly lines after 2025.
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Walk along assembly lines in many factories today and what is striking is the overwhelming presence of machinery that is only sparsely attended to by human beings.
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Those agencies recruiting manual labor scour the Continent for people willing to pick vegetables in Britain, pour concrete in France or work assembly lines in Eastern Europe.
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But amid concerns from some conservatives allies and members of the business community, Trump stopped short of demanding that companies convert their assembly lines or increase output.
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A recent daylong tour of the Fremont plant revealed how Tesla is trying to break with standard auto-industry practices all along the Model 3 assembly lines.
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That means the company's future hinges on the assembly lines Tesla has set up to produce the Model 3 — and whether the company can make them hum.
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In a handful of factories in the U.S., cameras have been installed over each worker's head in assembly lines as they put together car parts or electronics.
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CARB demanded that Volkswagen show it the software code that governed the emissions control system in the new 2500 models, which were already rolling off assembly lines.
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While some of those parts go to auto parts retail stores, a large percentage of them go to assembly lines and are to used to build cars.
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A sprawling complex of marijuana growing and processing rooms replaced the assembly lines that once spat out thousands of chocolate bars and peanut butter cups each day.
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Its video, which mixed performance footage -- yes, that's Clarence Clemons on sax -- with scenes of auto assembly lines, was also a valentine to her hometown of Detroit.
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Applications for unemployment benefits shot up at the beginning of the July, with economists blaming the jump on automakers who shut down assembly lines for annual retooling.
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If anything, several more assembly lines are at risk, including one in the Detroit suburb of Orion Township, where the Chevrolet Sonic subcompact and Bolt EV are assembled.
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But it also has taken steps to boost output of 737s and 787s in later years, and its assembly lines are more efficient thanks in part to robots.
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Yes, there are endless newsreels from the era of patriotic businessmen unrolling blueprints and switching on assembly lines—but that's largely because those businessmen paid for the films.
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WUZHEN, CHINA -- With computers stronger than ever and robots popping up on factory assembly lines, it's no surprise that people are wondering if machines will someday replace humans.
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But this has been so in all industries, going so far back as the introduction of the first steam engine, on through to the mechanization of assembly lines.
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The problem now is that GM has said it doesn't have enough demand for product to keep the four plants — two assembly lines, two engine plants — fully busy.
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In reality, adding those models will require frequently reworking the assembly lines at Tesla's Fremont plant and at other facilities the company plans to build around the world.
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But connected cars are still new to the market, so as they roll off assembly lines and into garages, they'll need to be hooked up to a network.
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Ford has a pilot project which could pave the way for humans and robots to eventually work hand-in-hand in all of the automaker's assembly lines worldwide.
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Filippo said Embraer's preliminary 2018 forecast for weaker revenue and profitability was due to the inefficiency of parallel assembly lines as the company transitions to next-generation aircraft.
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Made by 20th-century industrial photographers Wolfgang Sievers and Maurice Broomfield, they depicted assembly lines, grinding mills, and ore crushers the way other photographers did sunsets and waterfalls.
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But employees are still keeping assembly lines running, putting CEO Elon Musk at odds with local authorities, who are attempting to thwart the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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The development of the Ford Model T, regarded as the first affordable automobile, and the images of men building cars on moving assembly lines captured the public imagination.
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The remains of the Outboard Marine Canada plant, where chain saws and Evinrude boat motors once moved along assembly lines, is now a celebrated museum devoted to canoes.
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Boeing declined to comment on LIFT's orders, but said it is seeking new seat suppliers to solve capacity problems that have hampered its assembly lines in the past.
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Even if the Cybertruck lost in a re-match, Musk could say that Tesla will improve the vehicle before it starts rolling off assembly lines (scheduled for 2022).
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In some cases, that means making much smaller batches than mass-production-oriented assembly lines churn out, or using robotics and 3-D printing to create bespoke items.
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Tesla has assembly lines inside the factory, but after an automated Model 3 line failed to work properly, the company added an outside line under a huge tent.
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Two other GM assembly lines in Michigan are down to one shift per day, and could be at risk of closing during the four years of this proposed contract.
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She became part of what she called "strudel assembly lines" at a number of handbag manufacturers until 1963, when her husband decided that they should open their own business.
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The carmaker's "low-cost" Model 3 vehicles are already moving through assembly lines on a trial basis, and Musk heralded the "massive" stamping machines and in-operation paint shop.
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Those numbers are further confirmation automakers, with a few exceptions, continue to add and expand assembly lines in Mexico, even if it draws the ire of the Trump administration.
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The number of aircraft on Airbus's orderbook will keep its assembly lines busy for over nine years at current rates of production; that number for Boeing is over seven.
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The OneWeb project has forced Airbus to rethink the way it builds satellites, overhauling a painstaking, bespoke effort to introduce industrial methods and speed using assembly lines and automation.
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Those data, however, mask a complex flow of parts and components back and forth across both U.S. borders as cars and trucks are assembled before rolling off assembly lines.
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The company's new advertising campaign emphasizes this fact with a montage of Intel-powered devices, from 3D printers and robot assembly lines, to solar-powered cars and fitness trackers.
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Thyssenkrupp, a leader in assembly lines for automated car battery production, derives about a quarter of group sales from the auto industry, making it its single biggest customer group.
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The company broke ground on a massive, $1 billion facility outside Las Vegas in April 2016, bragging that new cars would roll off the assembly lines within two years.
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The company is also using digital tools such as including augmented reality to map new assembly lines, and predictive analytics to schedule repairs and maintenance before machines break down.
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With unsold cars and trucks piling up on dealers' lots, the big carmakers were getting ready to shut down their assembly lines for a few weeks over the summer.
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The assembly problems had mostly plagued two Model 3 final assembly lines Tesla has set up inside the plant, although there were also production slowdowns in the paint shop.
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Boeing said it will keep a 787 assembly line in South Carolina open at this time, as well as military and helicopter assembly lines near St. Louis and Philadelphia.
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On its own, Medtronic said it has already boosted its weekly ventilator production by 40% since January, in part by putting its assembly lines on a 24-hour schedule.
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Boeing faces the shutdown of key assembly lines for the second time in a year after being forced to halt production of its grounded 737 MAX aircraft in January.
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Meanwhile, residents continue wrestling with an encompassing, decades-long economic slide that started as the auto industry largely abandoned the once-mighty region and moved their assembly lines south.
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To keep their content assembly lines speeding (495 scripted original series aired in 2018, an 85 percent increase from 2011) companies are stretching some employees to a breaking point.
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On Monday, it acknowledged that it had experienced a "severe shortfall" in production of 33-kilowatt battery packs that use new technologies and are made on new assembly lines.
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It said it has created automatic assembly lines to resolve the problem, but the lines are in Germany, and they need to be disassembled, shipped and reassembled in Nevada.
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The industry is already struggling to deal with the escalating battle between the U.S. and China, which supplies a wide range of car parts for use on American assembly lines.
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Airbus is working flat out to maintain this year's target of 800 total aircraft deliveries needed to meet financial goals andsingle-aisle assembly lines are its most important cash cow.
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After 30 years spent largely shunning publicity, Huawei has turned into one of the world's chattier high-technology firms, inviting journalists into once-secret research laboratories and smartphone assembly lines.
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Google realized that building its own car would be difficult to do, especially at the scale needed to compete against companies who already have the assembly lines and manufacturing facilities.
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Jose Caiado, airline analyst at Credit Suisse, said in mid-March that he expected Boeing to keep the assembly lines rolling at current levels so it didn't disrupt supply chains.
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Tesla had amassed an impressive 400,000-person or so waiting list, and no one was lining up to buy GM's comparatively dowdy car months before it rolled off assembly lines.
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Germany's VDA said that the number of vehicles coming off the country's assembly lines in February was down 1 percent from a year ago at 440,900, while exports were flat.
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But as workforces age in Japan and elsewhere, collaborative robots - or "cobots" - are seen as a key way to help keep all types of assembly lines moving without replacing humans.
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He figures he puts in about 48 hours a week, compared to the 35 hours he averaged on the assembly lines — and his weekly take-home pay is $500 less.
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The latter resulted in an endless series of carefully staged photo-ops of Zuckerberg doing normal person things like posing on an assembly lines and posing while feeding a cow.
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Production of the Model 3 has been plagued by a number of issues, including problems with an over-reliance on automation on its assembly lines, battery issues and other bottlenecks.
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But thanks to more automated assembly lines, we are very close to the tipping point in employee productivity where the shipping cost will outweigh the labor savings of offshore manufacturing.
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The plan outlines a $200 billion transitional fund over 10 years for displaced workers and the renovation of existing plants and assembly lines in the creation of low-carbon products.
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But of the bunch, only Panera Bread can be labeled fast casual, a type of restaurant that forgoes bright florescent lighting, paper wrappings, and assembly lines for more refined touches.
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A strike might seem like a weird fit for artists who don't toil on assembly lines, but let us push our imaginations beyond the clichés about what strikes are like.
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In fact, they're already everywhere we look: over our heads, in our cars and operating rooms, next to us on the assembly lines, in our military and on the last mile.
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The 4-year-old start-up builds a system of cameras for assembly lines, then couples it with software that uses machine learning to detect defects before they go into production.
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Subsections of AI include robotics, which is changing factories and assembly lines, and computer vision, used in applications from identifying something or someone in a photo to self-driving-car technology.
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Forcing Takata to repay the full cost would almost certainly bankrupt the company, depriving carmakers of a supplier that, for all its problems, is crucial to keeping their assembly lines running.
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For instance, employers may substitute away from labor with technological innovations, such as supermarkets substituting self-service checkout for cashiers and assembly lines in manufacturing plants substituting robotic arms for workers.
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He has long suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the physical toll on his body from a lifetime of jobs mulching tree trunks and working in warehouses and assembly lines.
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When General Motors announced the closing of two assembly lines in Oshawa, Ontario, last month, Mr. Scheer quickly blamed carbon taxes even though the company said public policies played no role.
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Part of the large factory building houses Morioka, its lightning-fast automated assembly lines producing quartz watches (the technology on which Seiko has built its prosperity and which continues to develop).
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Claims data has been volatile in recent weeks because of difficulties adjusting the data for seasonal fluctuations at the start of July when motor vehicle manufacturers close assembly lines for retooling.
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Robotics is already a huge, multibillion-dollar market – but today that market is dominated by industrial robotics, such as welding and assembly robots found on automotive assembly lines around the world.
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"Barring unexpected challenges" with the planned factory in Shanghai, the company said, the added assembly lines could bring weekly Model 3 production to 10,000 sometime between October 2019 and June 2020.
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Airbus is working flat out to maintain this year's target of 800 total aircraft deliveries needed to meet financial goals and single-aisle assembly lines are its most important cash cow.
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When pundits speak of bringing back manufacturing jobs to the U.S., many people think of big factories with bustling assembly lines, but that might not be the right image to conjure up.
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The automaker was already on the verge of shutting one of two assembly lines at its Oshawa plant, with several vehicles either produced in another country or expected to move in 2017.
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But the company refused to fix it, because a cost-benefit analysis determined it would be cheaper to pay off individual lawsuits than to redesign assembly lines and repair the cars sold.
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In the tent, Model 3s are put together using manual labor and power tools, lifts and conveyors, but not with any of the sophisticated robotics Tesla uses on the indoor assembly lines.
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The embargo placed on ZTE by the U.S. Department of Commerce brought the company's assembly lines to an immediate halt laying bare China's dependence on foreign suppliers for critical technologies and parts.
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Equally frightening was "La Fabbrica Illuminata" (1964), a horror show of rage against injustice that pitches a solo soprano (Stacey Mastrian, inspired) against recordings of roaring furnaces, crunching assembly lines, even mice.
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No matter what happens, Americans are unlikely to find themselves sitting in large numbers behind sewing machines stitching up clothing or hovering over assembly lines as they fit electronics into circuit boards.
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In the manufacturing sector, for example, companies introduced conveyor belts and assembly lines at factories in the early 20th Century that brought down labor costs and temporarily put people out of work.
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But authorizing the missile defense system angered China, which retaliated by cutting back on South Korean consumer products, forcing the South Korean carmaker Hyundai to temporarily shut down assembly lines in China.
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But the company is not currently accepting deliveries from its suppliers, who generally deliver goods on a just-in-time basis, shortly before they are put onto vehicles along the assembly lines.
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Pennsylvania and Wisconsin lost thousands of manufacturing jobs over the past 12 months, despite President Trump's claims that "assembly lines are 'roaring,'" Bloomberg reports, citing new regional data from the Labor Department.
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The job fair in the Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen offered a white-collar future for a country that rose to economic greatness on the strength of its assembly lines, bulldozers and cranes.
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Automobile manufacturers normally idle assembly lines for retooling in summer but some often keep production running, which can throw off the model the government uses to strip out seasonal fluctuations from the data.
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CCTV aired a five-minute report in its flagship evening newscast under a similar banner, complete with a video montage of crisscrossing high-speed trains, automated factory assembly lines and busy container ports.
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The company is adding new technology to the F-15 and F/A-18 and other aircraft, and is refurbishing them on the same assembly lines use to build new aircraft, she said.
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You may think that jobs outside of assembly lines and manual labor are safe, but according to Fast Company, a lot of unexpected vocations may be taken over by robots in the future.
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Now that may help the steel barons and it may help the steel unions, but when that begins to resonate throughout the economy and the consumer, does that help everyone on assembly lines?
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Under ideal conditions, automakers have launched new assembly lines in 22.25 months, but they typically take two to three years after the first tooling and supply contracts are signed, several manufacturing consultants said.
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GM's move comes just two months after Ford announced it's moving its small car production to Mexico, while re-tooling some U.S. assembly lines to build the bigger, more profitable, SUVs and crossovers.
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In a media statement on Sunday, Toyota said it would suspend production on its vehicle assembly lines in stages, between April 211 and April 23.88, due to supply shortages resulting from the quakes.
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The conflict alluded to in the title — between the assembly lines of Detroit and the artisanal workshops of Modena, Italy, for supremacy in the racing world — is a bit of a red herring.
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With the three assembly lines running, Tesla built 5,031 Model 3s in the final seven days of June; about 20 percent came from the line set up in the tent outside the plant.
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GM has in recent weeks warned its employees in Brazil that "sacrifices" would be necessary for the company to return to profit in the country, raising concerns about layoffs or shuttered assembly lines.
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Built by the European consortium Airbus at assembly lines in France, Germany, China and the US, it has been produced in five different models, from the A318 to A321 in order of size.
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Soon Ford was cranking up his assembly lines, while Edison, with Ford in his employ early on, became a prime mover behind the power grid and the public utility companies that built it.
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Now the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, formed last year to extend the muscle of the #MeToo movement beyond Hollywood, has taken aim at sexual harassment on the fast food chain's assembly lines.
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Until now, suppliers have continued to ship parts, allowing Boeing to keep its assembly lines running, albeit at a lower rate, in hopes of resuming deliveries as soon the FAA gives its blessing.
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Before being bought by Tesla last year, Grohmann, based in the town of Pruem near the Luxembourg border, helped clients build highly automated and efficient factories, including battery assembly lines for electric cars.
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PSA said the Divergent partnership would begin by making prototypes, most likely at its Velizy research center near Paris, before moving on to car parts for assembly lines and eventually "overall vehicle structures".
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For decades, workers migrated to big cities in America that promised abundant jobs and decent wages — in clerical offices in New York, at shipbuilding yards in Oakland, on auto assembly lines around Detroit.
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The second straight weekly decline in claims, however, likely reflects difficulties adjusting the data for seasonal fluctuations around this time of the year when motor vehicle manufacturers shut assembly lines for annual retooling.
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They drive the latest batch of electric kick-scooters past the assembly lines and into a pen surrounded by protective nets and multicoloured bunting, over speed bumps and cobblestones, down steps and up ramps.
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General Motors sent shock waves through the country when it announced it planned to shutter five plants — including three assembly lines — and cut 26 percent of its North American workforce, eliminating over 2000,23 jobs.
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The filing, made in connection with Tesla's pending combination with solar energy company SolarCity, said additional funds would be used for tooling, production equipment and construction of assembly lines for the Tesla Model 3.
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The two plane makers plan to increase output by more than 30 percent through the end of the decade and need the income from these high-volume assembly lines to hit their financial targets.
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Those who would potentially benefit most from the regulation, according to Li, are female migrant workers behind assembly lines and sweeping the streets, who make up for the majority of such lines of work.
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It might be possible to hit the target, given the extra assembly lines Tesla has recently set up at its Fremont factory, but Model 3 production has a history of volatility and occasional downtime.
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One of the students, Jarred Seigle, liked how their task was similar to what he'd seen robots do on assembly lines in Honda's engine plant a few miles outside the center of the village.
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Negotiators for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Co continued talking on Wednesday, with no word on when a deal would be agreed that would get the automaker's U.S. assembly lines rolling again.
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Production of the Model 3, which began last July, has been plagued by a number of issues, including problems from an over-reliance on automation on its assembly lines, battery issues and other bottlenecks.
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National broadcaster CCTV aired a five-minute report in its flagship evening newscast under a similar banner, complete with a video montage of crisscrossing high-speed trains, automated factory assembly lines and busy container ports.
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Supporters led by La Confédération Nationale de la Boulangerie-Pâtisserie Française (CNBPF) say the craft loaf is already being pushed off shop shelves, even in France, by frozen bread sticks made on giant assembly lines.
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The phone in your hand is the end-product of an even more convoluted chain; one that relies on human labor from mines in Africa, assembly lines in China, and standing desks in San Francisco.
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The filing, made in connection with Tesla's pending combination with solar energy company SolarCity Corp, said additional funds would be used for tooling, production equipment and construction of assembly lines for the Tesla Model 3.
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The BelugaXL is one of the largest aircraft in existence and is used to airlift completed sections of planes from different manufacturing sites in Europe to Airbus's final assembly lines in France, Germany and Spain.
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Writers Tim Higgins and Susan Pulliam note Musk keeps a pillow on a nearby chair so that he can stay close, around the clock, to the two general assembly lines building the Model 3 sedan.
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" Why it matters: "No less than automobile assembly lines and steel plants, the public sector ensured that even workers without a college education could afford a home, a minivan, movie nights and a family vacation.
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Instead of ramping up production at their American factories to increase exports, these companies often open assembly lines in Asia, Europe and Central America, and they sell into those overseas markets from their overseas factories.
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But it was not until the 1920s that discernible productivity gains showed up, after the motors spread and factory work was reorganized into mass-production assembly lines to exploit the new technology of its day.
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They are more than happy to explore employee investment, robotic assembly lines, and amazing manufacturing techniques in Shenzhen and will pay lip service – but never really come through – on expansion if it suits the company politically.
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Inside, as well as the usual assembly lines and serried workers, the factory has dozens of staff in quality engineering and testing, conducting 250 different tests on OPPO's phones before they are released to the market.
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Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in the mid-1990s made producing cars in Mexico more financially attractive, the auto industry has increasingly added plants and assembly lines south of the border.
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But Yang thinks that decline is driven less by globalization and more by automated assembly lines, which have allowed the sector to maintain roughly the same output levels as 2007 while dropping nearly a million jobs.
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A lot of effort is going into applying the fruits of AI to current industrial robots, with companies like Kindred, Embodied Intelligence, Amazon, and Ocado working on dextrous and dynamic machines for warehouses and assembly lines.
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Boeing says one out of every four jetliners now rolling off its assembly lines is being delivered to Chinese customers, suggesting Chinese demand is strong, despite vagueness about how many actual Chinese orders it has won.
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"Many of domestic consignments are held up on roads, which has disrupted the supply chain and completely derailed the production at assembly lines of some companies," SIAM's Deputy Director General Sugato Sen said in a statement.
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Toshiba Machine said it's moving some of its production of molding equipment in Shanghai overseas, and machinery maker Komatsu (KMTUY) told CNN that it plans to shift some of its assembly lines to Japan or Mexico.
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"These are subsidies that directly harm working men and women on the assembly lines in Ohio and Michigan and across the Midwest," Mr. Obama said during a campaign rally, adding, "We will not let it stand."
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It's working to improve both speed and volume through an end-to-end manufacturing process that makes use of robotic assembly lines – one borrowed in part from the missile industry, so it's not without proven precedent.
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But ventilators aren't cars, and it's unclear whether GM could have taken a factory full of huge industrial robots and elaborate moving assembly lines and rapidly transformed it into a facility for making intricate medical equipment.
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In France, too, Renault is scrambling to keep factories open because some employees cannot go to work, and it may need to curtail production or even stop assembly lines at some locations, a spokeswoman said Friday.
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After a monthlong strike that has idled General Motors plants across the Midwest and South, union leaders are gathering on Thursday in Detroit to consider a deal that could send workers back to the assembly lines.
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The seven-year export ban imposed by the Commerce Department's Security and Enforcement Bureau on April 2202 plunged the company into crisis resulting in the immediate shutdown of its assembly lines and curtailment of its operations.
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It also includes suppliers that sell GM things it needs to operate — hydraulic fluid for the equipment on the assembly lines, solvents used to keep the plants clean, and electricity to keep the plants' lights on.
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Now, this wasn't an excuse to sneak in some product placement; Ikea furniture is meant to be assembled by humans in their home, not on factory assembly lines where manufacturing happens in controlled and highly predictable environments.
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Brazil's auto industry has idled assembly lines and fired one in 10 workers over the past 0003 months, but inventories still climbed to nearly 300,000 unsold vehicles, enough to cover 50 days of sales, according to Fenabrave.
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Then again, a few years ago, few would have expected to see "trucks" roll off the assembly lines of Maserati and Alfa Romeo, the other two global brands that were highlighted at the "FCA Capital Day" event.
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Vilas Capital Management Chief Executive John Thompson, one of those short sellers, said he believes investors underestimate the hurdles Tesla faces trying to rapidly increase production, including the cost to build future high-end robotic assembly lines.
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Tesla's consistent failure to meet its production targets - it had promised 2,500 Model 3s would roll off its assembly lines per week by the end of March - has made Wall Street broadly more skeptical about Musk's promises.
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Manufacturers that back losing plugs, however, could end up with redundant research and development and may have to invest to adapt assembly lines and vehicle designs so their customers can use the most widespread fast-charging networks.
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He said the sheriff's office discussed the matter with Tesla and explained that employees were permitted to show up to work for tasks such as payroll, but the company should not attempt to keep assembly lines running.
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IHOP President Jay Johns, who took over the company in June, explained the company's motivation to create a restaurant concept that focuses on breakfast and utilizes tools such as digital kiosks and assembly lines at the counter.
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Not an Ostrich contains photographs from these collections, depicting every ethnicity, most major religions, and many different professions from seamstress to pipe fitter, fishermen, farmers, ranchers, food processing assembly lines, maritime sailors, grape pickers, fashion models, and photographers.
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Police in the commercial capital of Shanghai also closed two assembly lines used to make the counterfeits and seized more than 4,000 bags, clothes and accessories, each of which they said cost the group 200 yuan to make.
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Companies across America today are confronting two critical and related national problems: A dearth of potential new employees is forcing managers to scramble to find workers for empty spots on assembly lines, in offices and at construction sites.
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Increasingly sophisticated and sensitive robotic arms can now work side-by-side on assembly lines with people without flinging our puny bodies across the room, doing the heavy lifting and leaving the fine manipulation of parts to us.
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George J. Laurer, whose design of the vertically striped bar code sped supermarket checkout lines, parcel deliveries and assembly lines and even transformed human beings, including airline passengers and hospital patients, into traceable inventory items, died on Dec.
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Police in the commercial capital of Shanghai also closed two assembly lines used to make the counterfeits and seized more than 4,000 bags, clothes and accessories, each of which they said cost the group 200 yuan to make.
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One recent listing said candidates should have the "ability to identify and analyze new failures [sic] modes from both the field and manufacturing lines, " suggesting that Tesla's remanufacturing line deals with parts coming off its own assembly lines.
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Fiat Chrysler's new CEO Mike Manley said this week that it may continue producing a higher-priced, heavy-duty version of the Ram truck at a plant in Saltillo, Mexico to supplement production at the company's U.S. assembly lines.
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The changes are supposed to make it possible for start-up companies to pay lower wages in their early stages, rather than having to hew to national labor contracts that govern janitors, agricultural workers and people on assembly lines.
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There is something else Mr. Trump should borrow from the Iran deal: a monitoring system that blankets the entire nuclear supply chain — the mines, mills, centrifuge factories and assembly lines as well as the enrichment and reprocessing sites themselves.
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While there have been predictions from several politicians of factory layoffs, representatives for four auto companies — Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Honda and Ford — said the Canadian National shutdown had not affected their assembly lines, which are major employers in Ontario.
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Chinese car and auto parts factories may stay closed longer than expected because of the coronavirus, increasing the chances that assembly lines in Asia, Europe and the United States could grind to a halt because of shortages of components.
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Many of the anti-union workers are "in a job where they're just walking around with a clipboard, they're not on that line," said Eric Hearn, who has worked on one of the plant's assembly lines for five years.
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Japan has become an essential supplier of robotics that power assembly lines; electronic systems for cars; circuit boards, sensors and other parts in your smartphone; and a host of other technical components and hardware hidden from the consumer's eye.
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Imagine has quietly placed itself at the center of the streaming revolution by splitting with Universal, raising its own funding and aggressively building new content assembly lines: documentaries, preschool television shows, multicultural low-budget films, podcasts, branded entertainment, animation.
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Imagine has quietly placed itself at the center of the streaming revolution by splitting with Universal, raising its own funding and aggressively building new content assembly lines: documentaries, preschool television shows, multicultural low-budget films, podcasts, branded entertainment, animation.
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However, one of Airbus's leading engine suppliers declined to endorse the new production plan publicly, saying it was too early to make such a commitment amid a switchover between engine models taking place as assembly lines run at record speeds.
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This promises to enable leaps in the speed of developing products, as well as technology that detects faults and fixes machines before they break down or that allows parts to tell assembly lines how they need to be put together.
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The Gulf carrier, which has invested tens of billions of dollars in more than 100 A380s, has been struggling to finalise a deal to buy another 2350 to keep assembly lines open, due to differences with engine maker Rolls-Royce.
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Contrast that with the rip-roading success of the new Mini, which is now in its third generation and enjoys an ever-expanding lineup, or the modern Beetle, which has been rolling off Volkswagen's assembly lines for nearly 20 years.
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And finally, the speed at which consumption cycles have increased means that factories need to be flexible not just at the product level, but at a product line level — with assembly lines able to swap out one product line for another.
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The Gulf carrier, which has invested tens of billions of dollars in more than 100 A380s, has been struggling to finalize a deal to buy another 2350 to keep assembly lines open, due to differences with engine maker Rolls-Royce.
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Making a film of "The Soft Centre," he uses the small offices of his producer, Jean Almereyda (Jean-Pierre Mocky, an actor and director who was a contemporary of Mr. Godard's), to conduct elaborately ritualized auditions, creating assembly lines of emoting.
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FRANKFURT — Chinese car and car-parts factories may stay closed longer than expected because of the coronavirus, increasing the chances that assembly lines in Asia, Europe and the United States could grind to a halt because of shortages of components.
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The humble loft building helped transform New York into an industrial powerhouse in the first half of the 227th century, with expansive, light-filled floors packed with workers stitching shirts and textiles, forging metal and machinery, and toiling in assembly lines.
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GM blames some of that higher inventory on the automaker's plan to build more pickup trucks in the first half of the year to meet demand later this year when it shuts down pickup assembly lines to transition to new models.
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But now that those issues are resolved, he estimates satellites will be rolling off assembly lines smoothly for the remainder of the year, and a second batch of more than 30 satellites will be ready for flight as soon as March.
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But among the global brands, cars made in China come from assembly lines that are identical in almost every respect to factories in the West — except that the factories in China, because they are new, tend to be more automated.
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Google took an early stab at a product in 2013, with Google Glass, which failed to gain traction among consumers but later found a market on factory floors and assembly lines, where workers now have hands-free access to computers.
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PARIS (Reuters) - CFM International has caught up with delays in deliveries of its LEAP jet engine after keeping its assembly lines running at high speed while the Boeing 737 MAX remains grounded, the French-American engine maker said on Saturday.
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The drop is partly because computers and smartphones are shrinking in size and heft, but much of the fall is accounted for by the increased proximity of final assembly lines to customers, as manufacturing localises and as Asian demand for electronics has risen.
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It looks at more recent robotic creations including Baxter (a two-armed bot built to assist humans in assembly lines) and Pepper (a bot that can "read" human emotions and is built to work in the service industry, assisting and directing humans).
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PARIS, June 20213 (Reuters) - CFM International has caught up with delays in deliveries of its LEAP jet engine after keeping its assembly lines running at high speed while the Boeing 737 MAX remains grounded, the French-American engine maker said on Saturday.
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Hired by Fiat in 1987 to ferry materials to the busy assembly lines in Mirafiori, Baldari was temporarily laid off in 2152 - kept on the books but only earning a fraction of his salary and spending much of his time at home.
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Most Americans are likely to think of Ford Motor Co.'s founder as the man who put the country on wheels, rolling out the Model T by the millions off his breakthrough assembly lines in the early half of the 20th century.
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Getaround wants to make this kind of thing much more broadly available across carmaker partners, with technology that makes rentals possible built-in to cars as they roll of the assembly lines, and it hopes this funding will help it get there.
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In their daily lives, when there is work to be done – whether on assembly lines, in the fields of family farms, fishing in our bountiful waters, or standing in harm's way – everyday Americans do what it takes to get the job done.
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Still, until recently, the F-18 program had been viewed by many to be a production line on life support, as newer planes including Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter roll off assembly lines and into future U.S. carrier air wings.
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Huachangda Intelligent Equipment Group Co Ltd, which makes automation equipment for applications including automobile assembly lines, said late on Wednesday that it had completed an exchange offer that day for an 8.5% bond traded on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange maturing March 22.
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After decades of European integration, companies assume they can move goods freely across frontiers; components are shipped so that they arrive "just in time" to go on auto factory assembly lines without storage, and pharmaceuticals and food also need to arrive fast.
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The automaker said in a statement it decided to suspend production assembly lines from operating at all of its plants in the country due to disruptions in the supply of parts from China, where many factories are shuttered due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Unable to halt layoffs or plant closings, Mr. Bieber turned a union of diminishing influence away from many confrontational tactics of the past, and in the late 1980s moved toward greater cooperation with automakers, who were already introducing robots on assembly lines.
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The WI's jam-making sessions were simple but scrupulous: groups of trained female volunteers would meet at their local WI and form assembly lines for making, canning, quality-checking and labeling the jams which would be sent off to be sold to the public.
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"For the Foxconn side, it first prepared nearly 60 assembly lines for Apple's XR model, but recently uses only around 45 production lines as its top customer said it does not need to manufacture that many by now," the Nikkei quoted a source as saying.
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YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co Ltd is likely to axe its Datsun brand, drop some unprofitable products and close a number of assembly lines worldwide as it seeks to boost profits by getting smaller, two company sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Following estimated growth of 3.6 percent last year, Slovakia's economy is expected to expand by 3.2 percent in 2016 before accelerating to 3.6 percent in 2017 and then by more than 4.0 percent as new assembly lines at automotive plants begin operations in 2018/19.
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"For the Foxconn side, it first prepared nearly 60 assembly lines for Apple's XR model, but recently uses only around 45 production lines as its top customer said it does not need to manufacture that many by now," the Nikkei quoted one source as saying.
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Fordism combined product standardization, systematized use of assembly lines wherein unskilled laborers used special purpose tools at different stages, and the principle that workers should be paid higher "living wages" to both provide better incentives and enable them to purchase the products they made.
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Prisoners earn as little as 23 cents an hour working on assembly lines, and their products often compete for business with legitimate government contractors who operate under under the Berry Amendment (a law that requires U.S. military uniforms to be made in the U.S.).
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Through policies like funding farmers to capture carbon in soil, offering loan guarantees to retool automobile assembly lines and rebating the revenue from a carbon tax to American workers, we can revolutionize our climate future while simultaneously unifying Americans around this vital national project.
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HONG KONG — Across Hong Kong's university campuses, students and their supporters are bracing for police confrontations in increasingly elaborate ways: constructing Molotov cocktail assembly lines, erecting catapults that use helmets to launch projectiles, and building walls made of brick and mortar or crosshatched bamboo.
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David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage — trade increases economic growth for exporting and importing countries alike and raises living standards for all — may be true on the grand scale, but it ignores those blue-collar employees who actually worked those now-gone assembly lines.
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VW's Spanish brand Seat is also operating near full capacity at Martorell after the new Arona SUV was added to assembly lines, and the brand has swapped production of the higher-volume Audi Q3 for the Audi A1 to ease workload at the factory.
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Not unlike the assembly lines that put together cars in Detroit, the call is immediately handed off to a licensed mortgage banker, who completes the loan application, then quickly passes it to processing so that he or she can focus on the next loan application.
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The likes of Sony, Toyota and Honda have all had to suspend plants in the affected region, with Toyota announcing on Sunday it would suspend production on its vehicle assembly lines in stages, between April 0.2 and April 23, due to supply shortages resulting from the quakes.
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In Mr. Rennert's case, that meant exposure, not just for his conglomerate of mines, smelters and assembly lines as far away as Peru, but also for his palatial home in Sagaponack on Long Island, reported to be the largest occupied single-family residence in the United States.
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Just as electricity enabled the assembly line in the 22020th century, since machines no longer had to be grouped around a central steam engine, data-analytics companies promise to usher in the assembly lines of the digital economy, distributing data-crunching capacity where it is needed.
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Two assembly lines inside the plant already exist to handle at least some of those tasks but they have proved troublesome and perform the work more slowly than Mr. Musk had hoped, in part because Tesla used robots for tasks that are better left to human workers.
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If such a tax were imposed on imports from around the world, automakers could face hefty tax bills not only for cars imported from Mexico and elsewhere but also for the many auto parts they buy from overseas for their assembly lines in the United States.
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"We maintain that the Model 3 ramp will be below company expectations (albeit improved from Model S/X ramps), and note that incremental production issues may continue to appear as the company looks to ramp mass manufacturing along the chassis, body, and final assembly lines," he wrote.
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They are fashioned from thin sheets of shiny aluminum that she more or less treats as fabric, cutting them into fringelike strips, arranging them in poufs, flounces or swags that can suggest fancy ball gowns hung up for the night, while also conjuring automobiles and assembly lines.
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We are living in a world that's adopting emerging technologies – such as AI, smart cities and the Internet of Things (IoT) – at an accelerated rate: robots are working with humans on assembly lines, cities are hiring CIOs and autonomous vehicles are testing on a road near you.
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Tesla ran into trouble delivering the thousands of cars that were rolling off its assembly lines, leaving hundreds of new Model 3s parked in inventory lots in California and other states as the company scrambled to match cars with customers and ship them across the country.
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Elsewhere at the Seymour plant, which employs 1,300 workers, whole assembly lines are kept profitable by supply chains that run to and from Mexico, a manager says; one of the lines "remanufactures" 16-litre engines from parts stripped, cleaned and repaired at a Cummins plant in Ciudad Juárez.
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Gannon tells The Creators Project that Mimus is an ABB IRB 6700 industrial robot that holds up to 200 kilograms (441 pounds) with a reach radius of 2.6 meters (8.5 feet), the type normally seen on car assembly lines usually performing tasks like spot welding or material handling.
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It will also continue to invest in the proprietary software it uses to run its operations from packaging foods in assembly lines in a fast way without generating food waste, to helping the 600 vendors it works with to sell everything they can to shoppers nearby, Xu said.
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Tesla built a new line in just two weeks in a huge tent outside the main factory, an unprecedented move in an industry that takes years to plan out its assembly lines, and said the tented production area accounted for 20 percent of the Model 43s produced last week.
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What is new, however, is that the influx of robots in the workforce is no longer just a concern confined to manufacturing floors filled with mechanized assembly lines, one of Google's driverless concept cars passing by or the notion of a drone soon replacing the friendly UPS delivery man.
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SMRP BV, which has a significant presence in larger European automotive markets such as Germany and Spain, derives less than 5% of its revenue from the UK, and most of its production volumes across Europe cater to local assembly lines of OEMs without too much reliance on exports.
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While they may not rival the scale of 1950s assembly lines, these smaller craft-type producers hold out hope for cities, Mr. Paul said, particularly as some companies look to move jobs back from overseas to be closer to customers and more nimble to supply customized, small-batch orders.
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Separately, management should overhaul assembly lines at Wolfsburg, VW's core plant employing over 60,20203 people and grappling with low demand for the ageing Golf, to be able to service demand for an extra 40,000 Tiguan sport-utility vehicles (SUVs), the carmaker's most popular model at present, said Osterloh.
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Tesla built a new line in just two weeks in a huge tent outside the main factory, an unprecedented move in an industry that takes years to plan out its assembly lines, and said the tented production area accounted for 20 percent of the Model 3s produced last week.
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In making his case for bipartisanship on trade, Hochberg argues that we are on the precipice of a sizable global economic change that will fundamentally alter core industries like energy and manufacturing: Core machines are now on assembly lines, and artificial intelligence is only just starting to displace jobs.
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That would be a boon for companies such as Cognex Corp , which makes so-called machine vision systems that are used to quickly sort and fill orders in e-commerce warehouses, and Faro Technologies Inc, which makes three-dimensional measuring tools that can help lower labor costs on aerospace assembly lines.
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And it emerged on April 5th that, as Boeing runs out of space to store all the unwanted planes coming off its assembly lines, the company is planning to slash production rates from 52 a month to 42, instead of increasing it to 57 later this year as originally planned.
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Louise gets laid off from her car assembly line job when the factory closes and subsequently finds a job delivering food for Meals on Wheels, which is how she meets Flo, who used to work on the same car assembly lines back in Detroit's heyday but is now struggling with dementia.
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In 2628 when the federal government established its current pay and job classification system, civil servants were engaged in mostly clerical and administrative work earning between $28500,6900 and $2628,28503 a year, television was in its infancy, the internet had not been invented and Studebakers were rolling off the assembly lines.
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There are three things that make K-pop such a visible and unique contributor to the realm of pop music: exceptionally high-quality performance (especially dancing), an extremely polished aesthetic, and an "in-house" method of studio production that churns out musical hits the way assembly lines churn out cars.
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Because of NAFTA and China-WTO, we have been able to buy a lot of good stuff much cheaper — which means we have had more income to spend on other things and to pay people to do other, more useful things than work on low-productivity blue-collar assembly lines. Skeptical?
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We have all kinds of Americans working for these companies on assembly lines and so forth and so on, so there&aposs a lot of people who absolutely benefit directly from international trade; not even downstream, directly from international trade and it&aposs almost impossible to know how many, isn&apost it?
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And that-- would not have, in my view, I think if you'd set up a government bureau in 1850 and given him 4543 years to develop a car I'm not so sure that he'd've ever come up with anything like this-- the assembly lines of Ford and all the things that have happened.
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In Europe, it was clear that the factories would have to go silent; the massive robots that weld vehicle frames standing down, the intricate moving assembly lines moving no more, the anxious workforces sent home as the coronavirus pandemic ripped through the continent, sickening tens of thousands in Italy, Germany, and France.
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We do not know if the Catholic and conservative general, who never met Weil, knew she had left her post as a professor of philosophy in order to work on assembly lines, left her family to fight alongside anarchists in Spain and left her country to escape the anti-Semitic Vichy regime.
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Robots can "perform simple tasks but not tasks that require judgment or the ability to evaluate a change in a situation," said Toshiya Okuma, associate director of global strategy in the robot business division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, a leading Japanese developer of robotics that has long helped automate car factory assembly lines.
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But whatever psychological trauma might theoretically accompany a temporary pause in the quarterly distribution of these dividends will be eclipsed many times over in the coming weeks by the genuine, nontheoretical, and nonpsychological existential shit storm Boeing has unleashed upon the thousands of companies that supply the 737 assembly lines with parts.
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Near Mirafiori, a vast plant that was Italy's industrial heartland and once employed 2000,217 people on its assembly lines alone, furloughed workers spoke of holidays put on hold and long waits between calls to do an extra day's work here and there, to top up a basic monthly net pay of some 2000 euros ($211).
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In fact, these policies make sense only as a kind of political theatre, according to which both the administration and its many supporters agree to pretend that it is possible to return to some mythical glorious past, when brawny American men, rather than machines or foreigners, smelted steel, mined coal and built things on assembly lines.
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And he is not wrong, the economy has recovered – but that vast majority of the wealth created has been concentrated in the accounts of capitalists as they continue to increase productivity while simultaneously lowering labor needs through both brilliant ingenuity on assembly lines and through the concentration of industry power in massive multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions.
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Last week the broader public got a good look at what one can expect from a Calhoun regime, when the company's board of directors made two grave decisions: to abruptly shut down the assembly lines of the grounded 737 Max jets, which could utterly destroy many of Boeing's most loyal suppliers; and to keep the dividend unchanged at approximately 25.3 a share or an annualized aggregated $2737 billion.
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In desperate pursuit of such affirmation, my mind has come to resemble one of those stamping-machine assembly lines you see in cartoons, but for shareable content: The raw, analog world in all its glory enters via conveyor belt on one end, and, after some raucous puffs of smoke, it gets flattened and packaged in my head into insipid quips meant to inspire you to tap a tiny heart on a screen.
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I&aposll give you an example very quickly, let&aposs say as a nation, the people in the country, the businesses in the country buy a billion dollars worth of oil from Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia just saying, buys nothing, so we&aposre in the hole "a billion dollars with Saudi Arabia" but we need the oil to finance assembly lines, to build stuff, to apply the products, to drive our cars and so forth, so why is that so bad?
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MI), Germany's Mubea and U.S.-based Federal-Mogul - part of Thyssenkrupp's Industrial Solution business division - subject to "inefficient cost basis" and "increasing customer reluctance", CEO Kerkhoff says - makes assembly lines for the car, aerospace and battery industries - employs about 4,900 staff in Europe, Asia and the Americas - made adjusted earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of 15 million euros in 2017/20173 on sales of 1.1 billion (adj EBIT margin of 1.4%) - cash flow of 16 million euros in 2017/18 - competitors include Siemens (SIEGn.
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