In the afternoon, they get to grips with factory equipment that has been shipped from Rover's former Longbridge plant.
Its customers will have to buy the factory equipment for depositing the nanowires from equipment makers that work with Sol Voltaics.
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Last December the planning agency reported a 5.2% drop in factory equipment purchases from the previous month, the biggest in 33 years.
Many people lacked basic skills or education and had barely ever used a telephone, much less a computer or sophisticated factory equipment.
It plans to accomplish that this year while raising money to work with an equipment manufacturer to create the necessary factory equipment to build a pilot production center by 2015.
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Production capacity numbers usually describe to what the factory equipment could produce if they operate around the clock, but they almost never do that because they get taken offline for maintenance and other reasons.
Having grown up in the old economy, DoveBid also has the know-how to offer all sorts of ancillary services, such as evaluating assets for buyers and helping them to work out how to ship heavy factory-equipment from, say, Chicago to Shanghai.
The factory s other equipment, including a machine that pastes solder and another that dispenses glue, can make a product within 24 hours of getting the plans.
In return for Nicaraguan agricultural goods, Iran is to help fund a farm equipment factory, 4, 000 tractors, five milk-processing plants, a health clinic, 10, 000 houses and a deep-water port.
Think of all the farm jobs lost to tractors and other farm equipment, and all the factory jobs lost to labor-saving technology, equipment, and computers.
Authorities also have promised to improve factory safety by modernizing equipment, overhauling fire-safety and building-safety laws, and increasing inspections.
The high court ordered Tata Motors to remove all equipment from the factory at Singur, near Calcutta, within two months.
Even more remarkable, half the workers don't even work directly for GEMA. They're employed by some 18 contractors doing noncore jobs once jealously guarded by the UAW, like moving supplies, maintaining equipment or cleaning the factory.
The company is installing equipment at the new factory in Portland and bringing the machines online to roll out its solar panels, which contain a thin layer of solar cells made with copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS).
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In 2000 Ford Motor restructured a factory in Cologne, Germany so that Ford paid the equipment supplier, Germany's Eisenmann, for each completed car that rolled out of the factory.
Miss Wells-Burr and Mr Nowak both worked together at cleaning equipment manufacturer Numatic's factory in Chard alongside Miss Wells-Burr's parents.
Some capital equipment companies that manufacture capital equipment damaged in the WD factory (such as Veeco) should see some upside in their 2012 quarterly numbers as WD replaces the lost slider production capacity.
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But additive manufacturing is only one of a number of breakthroughs leading to the factory of the future, and conventional production equipment is becoming smarter and more flexible, too.
And that includes being on the factory floor these days, because most of the equipment is highly technical.
Factory orders were weak overall, but if you exclude transportation equipment, they were actually up.
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Drew Greenblatt is an enthusiast: proud of his company, Marlin Steel, and proud of the factory floor packed with state-of-the-art equipment.
The BBC meanwhile reports that Toshiba has shut down one of its two LCD plants to recalibrate sensitive equipment, while Hitachi has also shut a damaged Tokyo factory.
They also could be executing plans they created a few years ago because building a factory requires time to raise money, gain regulatory approval and bring production equipment online.
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The Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust said it intended to keep some of the original ice-making equipment as part of a history exhibition.
McIlroy started testing his new clubs at the Nike factory in Texas late last year and says the transition from his former Titleist equipment has been seamless.
Frequently, it is not just a factory's output that its managers have sold on the black market but all its plant and equipment too, leaving a shell.
Prior to the factory infiltration, the company took precautionary measures, where possible, to move or protect production and test equipment, inventory and tooling.
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Sales have been crimped by Ebay sellers and carmakers themselves, which are putting in better stereos at the factory. (A few audio companies make money that way but at lower margins.) Audio equipment company Kicker this year reduced its budget for its dB Drag team.
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