Frederick Taylor, the father of industrial engineering and factory floor time-studies, will be so proud.

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Lindbergh's name was yet to be uttered by a single delegate, and because of an engineering conclave at a midwestern factory where he'd been advising on the design of a new fighter plane, he wasn't present or expected to be.

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Examples include 12 firms emerging from the closure of a gas engineering research station, and three from Siemens' microchip factory, which shut in 2001.

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In fact, factories are quite common incubator - our head of research at Dyson only pursued his engineering career thanks to a summer job in a bottle factory.

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Cadillac got a new factory (even though GM is suffering from overcapacity) and a separate engineering team charged with keeping Cadillacs special.

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Mr Clegg said the government was working "flat out" to ensure the engineering giant Siemens goes ahead with a proposed new wind turbine factory in Hull.

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When changes are made the algorithms make engineering adjustments, calculate the cost and send a bill of materials to the factory floor.

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However, Remy International, an electrical-engineering company based in Pendleton, Indiana, has stated that it plans to build another factory in America some time next year: but that in the absence of RTW legislation it will not build it in Indiana.

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