Yoshiyuki Nagashima, named an "Outstanding Skilled Worker" last year, makes grinders for industrial machine tools.
One of the most strategically significant of these proposed actions would involve extremely accurate machine tools.
Special emphasis in this decontrol proposal is on computers, machine tools, and telecommunications equipment.
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Toshiba illegally exported to the Soviet Union sophisticated machine tools needed to manufacture advanced submarine propellers.
There are 130 Chinese companies with annual capacity of more than 100 machine tools.
China now has 28 companies capable of building more than 1, 000 CNC machine tools.
Car parts, machine tools and Harley-Davidson motorcycles are only a few of its products.
The town has a strong manufacturing tradition, particularly in machine tools and electrical goods.
There are six American companies dedicated to producing five-axis machine tools, and at least 20 in China.
These days, along with Yamaha pianos and motorbikes, there are water scooters, tennis rackets, golf clubs, machine tools.
Germany, which supplied China with the high-precision machine tools needed to support its growth, saw its exports boom.
The United States exported 515 five-axis machine tools between 2005-2007, and only 12 of these went to China.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is in charge of licensing the sale of five-axis machine tools for export.
Companies making five-axis machine tools in the United States take a lot longer to build them than foreign rivals.
Many of India's old industries, such as machine tools, general engineering and basic textiles, remain mired in inefficiencies and protectionism.
The remaining producers of machine tools have either shifted production to other machine tool lines, or have moved production offshore.
In a still-unfolding investigation, Machines Francaises Lourdes (MLF) of France (formerly Forest-Line) evidently transferred highly sophisticated machine tools to the USSR.
Mass production, Mr. Snow shows, was really a revolution in machine tools.
In manufacturing, innovations such as programmable machine tools make capital equipment more flexible, creating a demand for more flexible human capital, too.
We tried where possible to limit the list to handheld or easily portable objects, eliminating most heavy machine tools, like hydraulic jacks.
Machine tools offer an illustration of how such an approach might work.
U.S. producers of some of the most technologically advanced machine tools are in trouble, according to an assessment by the Department of Commerce.
The number of licenses issued for export of five-axis machine tools to China dropped from nine in 2006 to only three in 2007.
In judging the appropriate standard, however, the relevant test should not be the state of the art of Western machine tools and like technologies.
Two years ago, Adrian Allen, group sales director of Technicut, which makes precision-cutting machine tools, decided to try to sell some machines to Boeing.
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It is reported that the Soviet Union has, among other things, utilized Olivetti-supplied machine tools to fabricate its new YAK-41 supersonic, short-take-off-and-landing naval fighter aircraft.
The machine tools allegedly sold by the Italian firm, Olivetti, to a Soviet aeronautics factory where they were used to build the YAK 41 fighter-bomber.
Half of those 6, 000 machine tools were of West German origin.
Unfortunately, there is considerable evidence that Olivetti is not the only Western manufacturer of machine tools to have transferred strategically significant equipment to the Soviet bloc.
With the rapid industrialization that has occurred in China, it is no surprise that China is now the largest market for machine tools in the world.
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