The vending-machine industry, however, wants a slower transition.
Apart from what has occurred in the industry itself, the complete transformation of the global machine tool industry is a useful barometer for the entire manufacturing sector.
Metal-forming technologies, and the machine tool industry, continue to be the industrial backbone for any industrial economy.
The dominant players in the machine tool industry have varied with the rise and fall of industrial manufacturing by country.
That was before the U.S. machine tool industry suffered a meltdown in 2009, when domestic consumption tumbled by 60.4 percent, according to the Association of Manufacturing Technology.
The transition that has taken place in the global machine tool industry over the past seven years is representative of what is taking place in one industry after another.
Foreign entities with knowledge of the multi-axis simultaneous control machine tool industry view the U.S. export control policies and requirements as an additional burden to consider when dealing with U.S. multi-axis machine tool manufactures.
The machine-tools industry is probably not something that crosses your mind every day.
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Nor did he gain a top post until age 50, when he was named administrator of the First Ministry of Machine-building Industry.
Other than JetBlue 's much publicized ice storm fiasco in February, customers seem to be engaged in a general rage against the industry machine.
Other than JetBlue 's (nasdaq: JBLU - news - people ) much publicized ice storm fiasco in February, customers seem to be engaged in a general rage against the industry machine.
Epstein predicted that this machine would take the industry by storm and change the dynamics of back-list sales and distribution, among other things (needless to say, the Kindle was the device that would eventually do those things and not the Espresso Machine).
Eliminating the interface would be a step back to the old computer industry, where each machine had a unique interface and was incompatible with other computers.
The pool occupies the onetime machine room, an inspired stroke of aquatic architecture that trades industry for indolence.
Night Shyamalan already shooting his next movie -- After Earth -- on the F65 4K camera, Sony's PR machine is going all out to assuage remaining doubters in the film industry.
Daniel Schultz, the FDA's chief device regulator, says new medical devices don't need the large-scale exhaustive trials of the drug industry because it is easier to predict the behavior of a machine than it is to track the chemical interactions of a new drug in the body.
The organisation - which represents the mobile industry - said that the surge in connected devices and the growth of machine-to-machine communications were creating huge demand.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is in charge of licensing the sale of five-axis machine tools for export.
Small machine shops, for instance, grew a remarkable 12.8 percent, but the industry as a whole grew an outstanding 20.5 percent.
Benchmark tests of speed used by the computer industry promised an impressive speed gain of around 25% over the 500 MHz machine I was used to.
In a nod to the changes afoot in the industry, Sony is planning to incorporate more social gaming aspects into the new machine, people familiar with the matter said.
Machine stitching is becoming good enough to produce better-quality balls, threatening Pakistan's industry at its strongest point.
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"The industry said I was a fool--looking at wood and thinking I could machine it like metal, " he says.
The finding by Gartner, the market research firm that serves as the high-technology industry's closest counsel, signals that high-tech's green hype machine is about to find another gear.
When the machine-building department at Bielefeld's University of Applied Sciences looked in danger of closing, industry drummed up interest among students to keep it open.
In 1973 it was donated to Birmingham's Museum of Science and Industry and was on show for 24 years until 1997 when the museum closed and the machine was dismantled and put into storage.
As the aerospace industry turns to new materials like titanium and car makers shrink engines to boost efficiency, they provide machine-tool makers with new markets.
The biggest change the slots industry has ever seen is coming soon, thanks to a tiny part on the back of every machine: the networking port.
Instead, industry executives say, the appeal is a combination of exclusivity and the pride of owning a driving machine capable of scorching up a racecourse even if it never does.
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