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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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.
People vented--largely about the IRS phone system's automated help line, sometimes about the constitutionality of collecting taxes--and IRS agents listened, nodded sympathetically and jotted notes.
Also, it doesn't hurt to check your account balance annually, by phoning an automated or recorded line or logging into a password-protected online account.
Henry Ford's automated car-assembly line spawned a galaxy of parts factories filled with workers.
When the person dialled answers the telephone, there is no agent available, resulting in silence on the line because the automated calling system has ended the call.
The ODA press office's phone line was answered by an automated message saying it was closed until after the Paralympic Games end in September.
Everybody knows the frustration of calling to a customer service line and having to deal with an automated interface.
Tokyo's Yurikamome Line, which skirts Tokyo Bay, is completely automated.
Those include a pilot program to test the use of platform barrier doors on the L subway line, and a vow to explore the installation of an automated warning system that would alert train controllers when a person is on the tracks.
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.
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