The fact that West German and other allied manufacturers are now able to produce machines tools with accuracies better than plus-or-minus 3 microns has prompted some to argue that the present export control standard is too stringent.
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence birthed autonomic technologies, self-learning and self-managing machines which have become employed by large enterprises to oversee as much as 90% of IT tasks, thus signifying a turning point from machines as tools to machines as employees.
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Kelly happens to be a rather dedicated Breitling watch lover, and has a long history with precision tools and machines.
What a great irony we have in the stone industry when the industry was many times more profitable when details were all done by hand versus now when the work is now mostly done by tools and machines not available 25 years ago.
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The tax will hit everything they sell, from x-ray machines and pacemakers to surgical tools and artificial hips.
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It's still cheap at 15 times expected 2010 earnings, he says, but management has done an excellent job of investing in products with strong recurring revenue such as surgical stapling machines and single-use laparoscopic tools.
Examples include: high accuracy machine tools, deep underground tunneling machines, telecommunications equipment, underwater surveillance gear, sophisticated computers, manufacturing equipment associated with microelectronics, advanced composites and super-alloys.
Key technologies transferred by or through Germany to the Soviet Union include: high accuracy machine tools, deep underground tunneling machines, telecommunications equipment, underwater sensors, sophisticated computers and manufacturing equipment associated with microelectronics, advanced composites and superalloys.
Nortec Collective takes this traditional Norteno and reinterprets it through synthesizers, drum machines and a grab bag of other digital tools.
Affected users - of which there were thousands - were offered free tools to help clean up the infected machines.
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Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have stuck with the old ways, shunning modern medical tools such as MRIs and CAT scan machines.
Machine tools are devices used to manufacture other machines.
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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But rather than using nets and chloroform, their tools are the high-speed gene-sequencing machines developed for the Human Genome Project.
The project hopes to give machines deployed in disaster situations the ability to find objects in their environment for use as tools, such as placing a chair to reach something high, or building bridges from debris.
We decided to exclude the traditional list of "simple machines, " which includes the lever, pulley, wheel and wedge, since most other tools employ some form of simple machine--a hammer is basically a lever, and an axe is essentially a wedge.
In a still-unfolding investigation, Machines Francaises Lourdes (MLF) of France (formerly Forest-Line) evidently transferred highly sophisticated machine tools to the USSR.
Life Technologies, formed by the merger last year of life science tools companies Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen, has an estimated 65% of the market for PCR machines used for research and has licensed its technology to 12 other companies making the machines.
It found that 80 percent of the five-axis machine tools they sold in the United States between 2005 and 2008 were imported, with Japanese and German machines making up the majority of models.
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