Big, sophisticated robot systems used on car-production lines can cost millions of dollars.
Ultimately, it wasn't Protestant conscience that eradicated slavery, but the ascendance of mass-production lines and innovations such as the steam engine.
The expansion incorporates a fully-automated assembly line for air handling units and four production lines for ductless air-conditioning and heating systems.
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That is a recommendation you might expect from a management consultancy, but no less valid for that: part of the recent increase in efficiency in Brazil's car plants, for example, comes from introducing work teams and re-designing production lines.
Action 2000, a body set up by the government to co-ordinate its campaign to beat the bug, says that in the past year about 15% of the microchip-controlled production lines in factories have failed tests of whether they can cope with dates beyond 1999.
This will include expanding production lines to manufacture ultra-high resolution liquid crystal display (LCD) and organic light emitting diode (OELD) display panels.
The group runs an impressive facility in Braband in Jutland, where scientists can work in small-scale operations that mimic real production lines.
Having reached their 30s or 40s, when they can no longer do mind-numbing, fast-paced and finicky work on production lines, they will often go back to the countryside.
The company will launch its mass production of the 17-inch model at it's Busan plant, producing some 150, 000 monitors a month, and will start producing the 19-inch models through some existing computer monitor production lines over the next year.
You can rest assured that hundreds -- if not trillions -- of new laptops will be rolling off of production lines this quarter with Intel's Sandy Bridge platform inside, and those looking for a little love over in Japan won't have to wait much longer.
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Globalised production lines, globalised labour markets, commodity markets, culture - all this acts like social superglue preventing any politician from even contemplating an overt protectionist or state-capitalist response.
It also assembles ERJ-145s in an Embraer joint venture, with the Harbin production lines reportedly switching to final assembly of Embraer Legacy business jets in several months.
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James McNerney, a former boss of 3M, a manufacturer, damaged the company's innovation engine by trying to apply six-sigma principles (which are intended to reduce errors on production lines) to the entire company, including the research laboratories.
Texas Instruments said it expects to start bringing the plant's manufacturing lines up in stages in May, reaching full production in mid-July and "full shipment capability" in September.
HD-DVD is less expensive to manufacture because firms can simply upgrade existing production lines.
They panicked at year-end 2008, closing down assembly lines and terminating tens of thousands of production workers of long seniority.
The solution that Apple stores recommend is iKlear, a non-toxic liquid cleaner, which its manufacturer Meridrew Enterprises says Apple uses on its own production lines.
Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people) said today it will idle three auto-production plants because of its Firestone tire recall, taking 6, 000 workers off the production lines.
The company said some lines at the plant will be reinstated in May, with full production expected to return in mid-July, and full shipment capability in September.
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