He left the factory world at 22, changed by the experience of grassroots peasantry and poverty.
The Gallaghers showed me wonderful newspaper cuttings evoking a vanished world in which the factory hooter was sounded triumphantly to celebrate the village team's victory in a competition in Belfast.
In December 1898, the company opened the world's first wireless factory at Chelmsford in Essex.
But China faces a difficult transition as it moves from being the factory to the world to being an innovation led economy.
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In October, 3D-printing startup Shapeways opened its New York production facility in Long Island City, Queens, the biggest consumer-focused 3D printing factory in the world.
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You would never know that the graceful brick smokestack on the north edge of town belonged to what was once the largest rope factory in the world.
Meanwhile, labor costs in China long the world's low-cost factory floor have been rising rapidly.
Without anyone ever really noting it, the entire world depended on that one Japanese factory for the glue to stick the chips into their casings.
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The factory survived the Second World War more or less unscathed until May 8, 1945, the day the articles of surrender were signed in Berlin.
Rabta is reportedly capable of producing 40 tons of chemical weapons daily and is said to be the largest chemical weapons factory in the Third World.
It's a world that looks more like a Taylorist factory than a place for culinary innovation.
In May, Matsushita, the Japanese firm behind the Panasonic brand, announced that it would build the world's biggest plasma-display factory.
The figures will be good news for them, but also for the world economy, as China's factory output is indicative of global demand for the country's consumer products.
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Hodgson was tipped as the next great British rider after claiming seventh in his home Grand Prix and earning a dream move to the Ducati factory squad for the 1996 World Superbike Championship.
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The real world came to me at age 22, on a factory floor in frigid Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, about a 20-minute drive north of downtown Milwaukee.
He may no longer weld the furniture himself the process that first brought him to the design world's attention but he visits every factory he uses and familiarizes himself with every stage of production.
When managers managed with a spreadsheet rather than real-world knowledge about what was actually going on in the factory and what were its possibilities, they overlooked hidden costs of the erosion of skills, the loss of quality and constraints on innovation.
When managers manage with a spreadsheet rather than real-world knowledge about what is actually going on in the factory and what were its possibilities, they overlook hidden costs of the erosion of skills, the loss of quality and constraints on innovation.
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The majority of the world's robots are bolted to a spot on a factory floor, sentenced to a repetitive choreography of welding, stamping and cutting.
But it seems an extraordinarily strange way to do it: when one efficient factory and supply chain can do it or the world then why have 192 different ones?
And today, in China, because China has become bigger and bigger, it's really a big country, plays very important role in the world, so we've been called like an international factory.
And to help meet that goal, this master of lean manufacturing is experimenting with a new cost-saving factory setup that it hopes to deploy around the world--while competitors are just now catching up with its last-generation manufacturing innovations.
The moves come as the world's largest retailers face pressure to increase their oversight of factory conditions in Bangladesh following a building collapse on April 24 that killed more than 1, 110 workers there.
Vestas, which supplies 40% of the world's offshore turbines, has applied for planning permission for the factory.
After returning from World War II, the pair set up shop inside the Sapolio soap factory, owned by Morgan's father.
After his service in the military, he worked as a ranch hand, factory worker, and construction laborer before venturing into the business world.
Instead, on his return to Pakistan on the eve of World War II he borrowed money from his father to set up a factory to dehydrate and can vegetables and fruits, which he then sold to the British troops.
His successor at the helm of the world's first tin canning business, John Gamble, moved the factory to Cork in Ireland in 1830, where there was a larger supply of cattle and the shipping route to the US offered an endless supply of custom.
Compassion in World Farming has also condemned the plans and in 2010 said they amounted to factory farming.
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