In 1936, Adolf Hitler opened the first factory for the production of the "People's Car, " the Volkswagen, in Saxony.
But that still leaves the problem of smoothing production at the factory to preserve the economies of scale, which even in modern scaled-down plants require a throughput of about 250, 000 cars a year.
The short massage boosted the production of mitochondria, the energy factory of the cell, among other effects.
The Chinese solar company said Thursday night it will eliminate two of the three production shifts and reduce its workforce at the factory by about 50, or half of the employees there.
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The paint shop is the most expensive, and most polluting, aspect of any automotive factory, and is often the source of production bottlenecks.
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The company is seeking to use only 50 percent of the factory production lines for six months, said company spokesman Alan Bernheimer.
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.
Rather than buy parts and the machinery to assemble them into vehicles, Chrysler will outsource 60% of the production responsibility for a new Jeep Wrangler--and many of the factory jobs--to its suppliers.
Visitors can also visit the production floor of the red-bricked Volkswagen factory led by English-speaking tour guides in headsets and brown blazers.
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The director, who is currently working on a stage production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, says his current work needs his "complete focus over the next year and beyond".
One of Sin Hwa Dee's factories is dedicated exclusively to the production of Yu Sheng products, while another factory produces noodles for the restaurant and catering industries.
Managers tout the Chery Production System, or CPS, which is modeled after the vaunted Toyota Production System, but the factory lacks the clockwork efficiency of a Toyota plant.
On the greener side of things, Ceradyne opens a factory this month in China to produce gear used in the production of polycrystalline silicon for the solar power industry.
The firm said that if it could not get planning permission for the homes it would look at moving the main production factory out of Tiptree.
And less than a year after the announcement that sealed the fate of the Keynsham factory, the last chocolate bar has rolled off the production line.
Worker-rights groups have said that the pressure of production increases and the introduction of workers from other factories can increase stress on the factory floor.
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Factory output, the most important component of industrial production, was dragged lower by a steep 3.2 percent decline in auto and auto parts production.
When production ended the number of staff was 400, which will be reduced to 50 as the factory is cleaned up over the next few months.
As you know, we have resumed production at all of our factories in Japan following the earthquake, and even the worst damaged Naka factory started mass production from June.
Managers tout the Chery Production System, or CPS, which is modeled after the vaunted Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) Production System, but the factory lacks the clockwork efficiency of a Toyota plant.
Asha production is ramping up in China and the Manaus factory of Brazil right now.
The production of burgers at a processing factory in County Monaghan is expected to resume shortly.
According to workers, multiple iPhone 5 production lines from various factory buildings were in a state of paralysis for the entire day.
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In December workers at Mercedes's Sindelfingen factory near Stuttgart went on strike after the company said it would shift production of its C-Class cars to Alabama, so Mercedes promised to maintain employment at the plant until 2020.
Except for one department of the factory - the only section that hasn't ceased production is the distillery - the part that produces vodka.
They say their work schedule is dictated by ever-increasing production goals, like those 600 pairs of pants at the Jordan Dragon factory.
Production has come to an end at the Hall's of Broxburn meat factory in West Lothian.
Most of the savings came not from trimming labor (10% of cost) but from getting parts to the factory floor faster and improving production flow.
In the late 1990s Vaughan-Bassett invited one of the largest Chinese producers, Lacquer Craft, to its factory to videotape production of bedroom furniture so that it could produce bedroom furniture in China for Vaughan-Bassett to import and resell.
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The plant will be the third for India's largest car maker by sales and its first outside the northern state of Haryana, where labor agitation affected production at a factory for most of last year.
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