Some bacteria, it turned out, produce polyketides in an assembly-line fashion in much the same way that General Motors produces cars.
This has translated into a vast reduction in waste and assembly-line slowdowns.
The partnership between HealthSouth and the clinic enabled Andrews to perform an amazing 15 to 20 surgeries a day (five times the usual rate for orthopedists), twice a week, in assembly-line fashion.
The highly automated factory, to pick only one example, can out-compete any assembly line in the world that runs the old-fashioned way, even if its workers are plugging in widgets and tightening bolts for 30 cents an hour.
A320s a month on a final-assembly line in the northern port city of Tianjin.
Why do we volunteer to spend our time in the same way as assembly-line journalists who are being jack-hammered into a state of frantic fatigue?
Yet working conditions in services are often pleasanter and safer than on an assembly line, and average wages in the fastest-growing sectors, such as finance, professional and business services, education and health, are higher than in manufacturing.
This week, as he was in China visiting high-level government officials, Mr. Cook also toured an iPhone assembly line at a Foxconn facility in Zhengzhou.
Migrants flooded in from the interior, working construction and assembly-line jobs.
In addition to the Dreamliner assembly line at its Seattle-area factory, it built a new 1, 000-worker factory in South Carolina to handle the demand.
Even routine practices, such as the assembly-line production of documents in real estate closings, have become a minefield as banks sue their own lawyers over soured loans.
This has a humanizing effect on the notion of how businesses have operated for over a century: replacing the assembly-line, a cog-in-the-machine view of the industrialized world, with one with a greater focus on people.
The rest comes in big pieces ready-made by suppliers and trucked to the assembly line, where Mercedes workers bolt them on.
Chaplin's 1936 film captures our frantic effort to keep up with the assembly line--and to stay ahead of work in general.
Each Epsilon-based car will have the same 1.2-meter-long steel midsection to which a set of parts--whether for a Saab or Malibu--can be attached at the same place on the assembly line and in the same way.
Each Epsilon-based car will have the same 4-foot-long steel midsection to which a set of parts--whether for a Saab or Malibu--can be attached at the same place on the assembly line, and in the same way.
The first customer-ready new Ford Expedition rolled off the assembly line at the Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, Michigan, in March.
Top-down assembly line processing is a remnant from the rusty industrial age, and no longer works in the fluid, spreadable hoodoo environments of the information era.
The lamp, which packs flat for easy storage and self-assembly, is the brainchild of Klickity, a line of home-accessory products founded in 2011 by Irish women Kate Cronin and Elizabeth Fingleton.
Another worker, who would identify himself only as Mr. Xiao, started as an assembly-line worker almost three years ago, just after graduating from a technical school in central China, where Hon Hai recruited him.
At the age of35, Linda Arroz made a major career change: from a working on the assembly line at a General Motors plant as a spot-welder to an image consultant in the corporate and fashion worlds.
One goal of this approach is to eliminate non-value-added activities in Chrysler plants in a thoroughgoing way that the company never has attempted before, down to shaving steps required by an assembly-line operator to complete a given task by asking the worker to redesign the job.
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