U.S. Nissan LEAF production is sourced from assembly and battery production facilities in Smyrna, Tennessee.
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At the beginning of his mass-production assembly line, Ford was producing one complete, fully functional car every 90 minutes.
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Even routine practices, such as the assembly-line production of documents in real estate closings, have become a minefield as banks sue their own lawyers over soured loans.
Instead, what appears to be limiting production is assembly of the iPhone 5 itself as it is not easy to build.
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Mulliner keeps close records of each vehicle's assembly, helping the production workers detect whether any flaws were made and at which point.
But Canon is hardly the only firm to shift from assembly-line to small production cells.
The second industrial revolution was driven by Ford, and others, who created mass production and moving assembly lines.
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Importantly, LEAF is now assembled in the United States at Nissan's Smyrna, Tenn. assembly plant, with battery production taking place right next door in the country's largest lithium-ion automotive battery plant.
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Many more have seen the factories on which their livelihoods depend cutting production or even halting assembly lines.
Soon Ford was developing the assembly line, which would boost production from 20, 000 Model T's in 1910 to 600, 000 six years later.
The company said it has resumed production at its Thailand assembly operation.
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Regulations that the government alleges Wilson violated would require approval for the design, development, production, manufacture, assembly, operation, repair, testing, maintenance or modification of firearms including blueprints, drawings and plans, or just about every aspect required to print a gun using a 3-D printer.
Technologies such as the assembly line were less important for making production faster than for making it cheaper, and laborers more replaceable.
They may not look inspiring, but deep in the recesses of their brains they have these little ideas--a fast-food restaurant concept no one has ever anticipated, an assembly-line innovation that can lower production costs by 50%, a retirement-plan wrinkle to save everyone's 401(k)--and, someday, assuming they can find their toothbrushes amid the stash of moisturizing-cream bottles in their travel bags, they are going to realize their dreams.
They panicked at year-end 2008, closing down assembly lines and terminating tens of thousands of production workers of long seniority.
The expansion incorporates a fully-automated assembly line for air handling units and four production lines for ductless air-conditioning and heating systems.
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With production being transferred abroad, the assembly government said its priority now was to support those who were losing their jobs.
The company has been able to resume production at all of its Japanese assembly plants, although these are also affected by the parts shortages.
It also assembles ERJ-145s in an Embraer joint venture, with the Harbin production lines reportedly switching to final assembly of Embraer Legacy business jets in several months.
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Maruti Suzuki is currently adding to its production at Manesar, where a third assembly line for 250, 000 vehicles a year will go on stream before 2014.
Meetings of the central committee of North Korea's Worker's Party on on Sunday and the Supreme People's Assembly on on Monday have emphasized trying to extract production gains from the moribund industrial and agricultural sectors without suggesting any economic reforms.
She joined us in the production facility, where she did low level assembly work.
Much of Dell's production, up to the point of final assembly, is outsourced.
Employees directly involved in the production of what a company makes think assembly-line workers are generally entitled to overtime.
China already dominates both production and capacity at the low-value-added assembly end of manufacturing.
The often low-margin assembly operations were hit hard by declining orders and rising cost of production.
The company is late in introducing flexible manufacturing, which allows production of three or more vehicle types on a single assembly line.
He dives into meetings with plant managers and squeezes in a quick tour of a retooled assembly line where the new Nissan Note, a European subcompact, has just started production.
The ferocious seasonal rains that hit the country in October 2011 caused massive flooding which disrupted the production of hard disk drives, cameras, microchips and automotive parts and assembly plants.
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