The research team is currently investigating a laser lift-off technology to facilitate the mass production of flexible LIBs and 3D stacking structures to enhance charge density of batteries.
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But online games may not have an end, so their production is more flexible and it demands fewer resources.
Once the wells are completed, they are connected by flexible hoses to a floating production platform on the surface.
To stay competitive, suppliers must implement more flexible, powerful and responsive production systems.
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The company is late in introducing flexible manufacturing, which allows production of three or more vehicle types on a single assembly line.
There are limits to monetary policy: the Fed does not have the knowledge to bring about full employment, which requires flexible relative prices for all factors of production.
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Unfortunately we still have a bit of time to wait for either, with the boosted contrast ratio model entering production later this year and the flexible one sometime in early 2011.
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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.
"A leading engineer and manufacturer of high-quality, flexible pipeline products for oil and gas transportation in the susbsea production industry, " Wellstream's acquisition demonstrates a double interest by GE to both tap the deepwater drilling business and enter one of the world's most dynamic economies in the sector, Brazil.
But the plant is designed to be flexible, so it can add new models, or cut back production if necessary.
It is widely agreed that the best way to do this is to bring in more robots, more machines and a greater degree of automation to help speed up production, and workers in the car industry have had to become much more flexible in their attitudes to work.
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