Randfontein is offering to arrange retraining for sacked miners, in welding or carpentry, for example.
That will require further advances in laser welding and other bonding techniques to make production costs competitive.
So she enrolled in a welding course, passed with a perfect score and did all the work herself.
So Parks borrowed a tool common in the welding of plastic components, which is to gently agitate the hopper so that particles flow like water into a metering chamber.
The lawyers blame the maganese in the welding rods, or more specifically manufacturers like Lincoln Electric for failing to warn those workers of the risk of manganese poisoning.
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In December the first two welding cases in a mass tort with 5, 300 claimants imploded amid charges of faked injuries.
Using a laser, the robot can make highly accurate welds and position itself for each one a lot faster than it could if it were spot-welding in the normal way.
The Valencia brothers work at Victor Welding Supply in South Los Angeles, and Cuellar is an employee of LA Rush, an auto parts store.
While some fishermen are transitioning to different jobs in the areas of welding, pipe fitting, and sustainable agriculture, others are focused on restoring the fishing industry.
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Students train in industrial electricity, welding, sewing and computers.
The dummy will then be used as a template to locate pieces of fabric in the appropriate position while robotic sewing arms buzz around stitching the pieces together, much like the spot-welding machines found in car factories.
If thinkers like Vedder and Murray had more sway, some of the kids struggling with algebra in high school would be studying welding or car mechanics instead, and many of the ones whiling away four years on liberal arts courses would be studying nursing or software instead.
The NTSB found that a fire on board the Liberian-registered Ecstasy, operated by Carnival, had been caused by a fire in the laundry room sparked by unauthorized welding.
Nachman Brautbar of Los Angeles has worked on everything from breast implants and welding fumes to the chromium contamination in the Erin Brockovich case (his Web site features a testimonial from the film's namesake).
So specialised, in fact, that Bob Richwine, the head welding teacher at the college, said he had never heard of them, and so difficult that only experienced welders could attempt them.
In between, income-generating programmes cover everything from welding to therapeutic massage, and include several indigenous crafts.
He imagines outfitting the plant with a row of welding stations that have been custom-designed for veterans in wheelchairs.
Mr. Ratner explained that in 2005 Google had a small machine shop, metal tools, a wood workshop, and a welding workshop.
"In the field of robotics or mechanical engineering, the ability to create a moving part without any welding removes a lot of the barriers to prototyping, " Martins said.
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