Mr. Hackenberg said up to 44 separate vehicles will be built on the MQB, resulting in materials savings of 20% and savings on tooling and facilities of up to 30%.
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Chinese entrepreneurs, with tons of backing from their social-unrest-fearing government, take all the risk of losing the next contract from Apple and writing off millions of dollars in tooling and equipment.
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Coventry and Warwickshire firms which will also benefit are: Richmond Design and Marketing Limited, Expert Tooling and Automation Ltd, Envisage Group Ltd, Lear, Covrad Heat Transfer Ltd, Warwick Manufacturing Group, and Drive System Design Ltd.
The SLS rocket will incorporate technological investments from the Space Shuttle program and the Constellation program in order to take advantage of proven hardware and cutting-edge tooling and manufacturing technology that will significantly reduce development and operations costs.
Dave shut down his machine tooling shop and now designs tooling configuration software.
The collectors can be installed quickly, with adhesives and tooling used in the roofing industry, and in a dense formation.
Group tooling operations will continue and will be expanded to include development of tooling for other components e.g. doors, boots and decklids.
As well as closing the stamping and tooling plant in Dagenham, Ford plans to end production in Southampton.
PCs have about a 14 month design cycle, driven by the influences of tooling lead times and retail selling cycles (human behavior patterns).
Prior to the factory infiltration, the company took precautionary measures, where possible, to move or protect production and test equipment, inventory and tooling.
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With so many potential combinations, it's tough to predict what will sell, so Chrysler (and its suppliers) have to gear up with parts and tooling to build every possible variation.
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Beginning with the Swatch, which was based on a new "slim line" watch that had been developed by AUSAG before the merger, Hayek invested heavily in automation and the standardization of parts and tooling.
That results in AMAT having its engineers in just about every chip-building facility in the world, which allows it to not only provide superior service, but to see early indications of the future equipment and tooling needs of its customers.
Pavlo was wearing custom-tailored suits, tooling around in limos and flying to the Caymans regularly.
One is to constrain Iran's nuclear activities by restricting the country's access to advanced tooling, crucial materials and so on.
Among the flourishes is the Vanquish's rear-spoiler hoop that, being made of carbon composite, required a unique and proprietary tooling process.
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The 20-employee firm brokered custom tooling for factory mills and lathes.
The 20-employee company brokered custom-tooling for factory mills and lathes.
In 1991 Chrysler needed money to finish tooling its new Grand Cherokee and get the vehicle into production.
Britain, too, is tooling up for defence (and offence) in and through cyberspace.
It has the potential to meet defense and energy challenges and support U.S. manufacturing companies of all sizes by minimizing the need for tooling, compressing the supply chain, and reducing waste better enabling them to compete on the international stage.
They wouldn't make such a lengthy commitment, says James Clancy, who retired from Chrysler's stamping division in 1994 and now advises the tooling industry.
He also persuaded Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler to accelerate payments and make early outlays on tooling programs.
Growing up in the early 1970s I spent my August summer evenings tooling around on my banana seat bicycle and playing outside games such as hide and seek.
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The actions also include eliminating inkjet development worldwide, including costs related to facilities, tooling, equipment, contract termination, and scrapping in process inventory, which are expected to be principally complete by the end of 2013.
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This has meant that we have had to change production methods and move to high-volume tooling.
Clever software helps Blueswarf.com's customers crank up factory output by configuring mills and lathes with the best combination of tooling.
In essence, many brokers and traders are presently contemplating re-tooling for another career or starting their own shop in an effort to maintain their careers.
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For example, Rhett Crooks is the owner of a precision tooling manufacturer in Vandergift, Pennsylvania that recently turned around and is rehiring.
The transparency gives Honda a tactical benefit: It knows ahead of time how much a tool costs Northwest to build and thus whether suppliers are crying wolf about their tooling costs.
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