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The highly automated factory, to pick only one example, can out-compete any assembly line in the world that runs the old-fashioned way, even if its workers are plugging in widgets and tightening bolts for 30 cents an hour.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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In Huntsville, AL, Raytheon has opened up a fully automated missile factory.
FORBES: Raytheon Opens Up Automated Missile Factory In Alabama
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VIST's success has been the availability of a modern, automated assembly line at a factory in Zelenograd, a town about an hour from Moscow.
ECONOMIST: Russian computers
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Gou envisions a fully-automated (and presumably almost employee-free) component factory inside of five years, has qualms about expanding his manufacturing presence in America ("I don't want to spend time having people sue me every day"), and pays executive bonuses out of his own dividends to protect the company's bottom line... so yeah, he's quite the industrialist.
ENGADGET: BusinessWeek profiles Foxconn founder (and veritable pitbull) Terry Gou
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In June 2011, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou announced plans to deploy one million robots across factory assembly lines, as part of a company-wide effort to adopt more automated manufacturing processes.
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