Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.
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So you look at where do the raw materials come from, what's the energy used to make them, how much pollution was generated, how did they get from the factory to the distribution center to the store.
The speed of the new system is limited by how fast suppliers can get parts to the factory and by some of the early projections Toyota makes for options and colors.
He says it was difficult to get the workers to talk about their jobs during the factory tour.
The machines are building themselves, doing their own mining to get the materials to make the machines which mine the copper which goes to the factory of machines which makes the telephone.
The sanctuary, which is on the site of a former cement factory, plans eventually to get the help of the Kenya Wildlife Service to place Owen with Cleo, a lonely female hippo in a separate enclosure.
Its North American operation is trying to get parts suppliers to pick up most of the tab for a new factory in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
By calling on the network of NGO workers he had helped as an interpreter in the squatted factory, he was able to get a volunteer lawyer to go into the camp and lodge an asylum claim.
Early on, to get around rules restricting Olympic participation to amateurs, Hoffman would hire the lifters at his factory for as little as ten dollars a week and let them train on-site.
"We get delayed shipments because not enough workers return to the factory, " he said.
In the afternoon, they get to grips with factory equipment that has been shipped from Rover's former Longbridge plant.
There was a time when if you just got a high school education and you were willing to work hard, you could get a job in a trade or in the factory that paid a middle-class wage.
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He said unions would again meet management on Thursday to discuss details of a redundancy package and get more details on the closure of the factory.
The agreement, drafted by the U.S.-based International Labor Rights Forum and labor groups in Bangladesh in the aftermath of a deadly fire in a garment factory in Dhaka in December 2010, has so far failed to get the support of most big-brand foreign clothing companies.
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Longer term--after the introduction of HSAs--the next battle will be to get 401(k)-like plans for new unionized factory workers.
Also convincing investors that the ECB wants to get back into its nascent monetary tightening process was a report showing German factory orders jumped by 2.8% in April.
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The only problem is that I work in a factory all day, everyday, just to pay for the medications Adam needs to get by.
Asked why she entered the building on Wednesday despite believing the building was unsafe, Miss Khatun said the factory supervisors had threatened them and said those who did not go to work would not get paid.
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