The planned job losses are another blow to Merthyr after Hoover ended 60 years of washing machine manufacturing in the town in March.
In contrast, its competitor General Electric reallocated capital from commodity plays that had paid in the 1970s to new real enterprises like magnetic resonance machine-manufacturing, betting that discretionary income for health care was going to soar with the coming rise in affluence.
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China has built a very powerful manufacturing industrial machine that will get stronger because of the need to support the increase in internal demand for goods as well as the need to support the continued demands from other countries.
Historically, Nokia has been a highly efficient manufacturing and logistics machine capable of churning out a dozen handsets a second and selling them all over the world.
Also under consideration are transfers of six extremely senstive mainframe computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation (3) computers designed for the operation of nuclear plants and highly accurate machine tools suitable for aerospace manufacturing .
The company says that current production rates see one backhoe machine roll off one of its manufacturing lines every three minutes.
Instead of continuing down the Chinese rabbit hole, the CEO is working on a plan to transport his machine tools to a newly purchased manufacturing plant in South Florida.
Some of the industries within manufacturing that have shown the strongest growth over the last 12 months have included machine shops, manufacturers of metalworking machinery, plastics product manufacturing and manufacturers of electrical equipment and components, Sageworks data shows.
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The town has a strong manufacturing tradition, particularly in machine tools and electrical goods.
In manufacturing, innovations such as programmable machine tools make capital equipment more flexible, creating a demand for more flexible human capital, too.
Surely it created engineering and manufacturing jobs to design and produce the machine, right?
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Simply because in much to most of manufacturing it is now cheaper to buy a machine than it is to hire a worker.
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Apart from what has occurred in the industry itself, the complete transformation of the global machine tool industry is a useful barometer for the entire manufacturing sector.
Shutting off and on several times a day is a good way to quickly wear out your machine --and considering the nasty, ecologically unfriendly PC manufacturing process, the green thing to do is keep the one you have as long as possible.
The dominant players in the machine tool industry have varied with the rise and fall of industrial manufacturing by country.
The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.--sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.
The review of the manufacturing engineering sector also highlighted a long-running demand for skilled machine operators, welders and graduate engineering positions.
The government's strategy has been to treat imports of capital goods, such as machine tools, relatively generously (to help Kia and its peers improve their manufacturing), while clamping down on imports of western consumer goods, such as cars.
Once a design is set, different bits of the manufacturing process are tried out on computer: a virtual pipe-bending machine, for instance, makes sure that the fuel lines which snake their way through the airframe can be created without wrapping themselves around the machine and bringing it to a halt.
Key technologies transferred by or through Germany to the Soviet Union include: high accuracy machine tools, deep underground tunneling machines, telecommunications equipment, underwater sensors, sophisticated computers and manufacturing equipment associated with microelectronics, advanced composites and superalloys.
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