Dutch automotive producer VDL Nedcar is set to commence production of new BMW MINI Hatch in Born, Netherlands. The MINI Hatch originally started production at the BMW's facility in Oxford in November 2013. Dutch King Willem-Alexander ...
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Sri Lanka based car manufacturer Micro Cars has opened a new facility that assembles SsangYong vehicles following a renovation project on the site. Located in the Board of Investment export processing zone, approximately 67km away from ...
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Toyota Corolla is now exported from Mississippi to the World. With this move, a total of nine US-Assembled Toyota Models are now exported to 32 countries. At a ceremony this afternoon with team members, elected officials and community and ...
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German automaker BMW Group is set to commence the production of its hybrid sports car, i8, at the assembly line in Leipzig, Germany from April 2014. The automaker has unveiled the new hybrid sports car in 2013. With a top speed of 250 ...
The Bosch Group has laid the foundation stone for its new plant in Russia: from 2015, Bosch automotive technology will also be rolling off the assembly line in Samara. The site itself covers a total surface area of some 200,000 square ...
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Just a century ago, work settings were absent of telephones, typewriters, calculators, digital computers, and even, women. People from that era would not recognize today's professional environment, which is highly automated and impersonal. ...
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German sports car manufacturer Porsche has opened its expanded production plant in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Along with the final assembly line, the plant now features a body shop and an ultra-modern paint shop. It has the capacity to ...
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Ford Motor Company’s stand at the 2014 North American International Auto Show includes a 37.5-ton display that simulates a moving assembly line, as well as a chance to see the all-new Mustang next to the original pony car. Ford is ...
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Clip-Lok SimPak has designed new boxes to transport heavy glass loads for a new line of heavy duty trucks. Clip-Lok boxes, which are part of heavy duty truck logistics, are flat-packable and reusable. The collapsible Clip-Lok 2P box, ...
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Lean manufacturing has become more than just a buzzword. Lean companies like Hamilton Caster are more efficient. But Hamilton doesn't just practice lean, it helps its customers on their journeys, too. Lean manufacturing, in a nutshell, ...
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The 2014 CES will be remembered as the year when 3-D printing arrived. Sure, there were plenty of grizzled veterans around who were willing to point out, as 3-D Systems' Avi Reichental did, that "3-D printing is an overnight success 30 ...
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The first truck-mounted concrete pump of Zoomlion's first self-built overseas manufacturing base - Zoomlion Concrete Machinery Brazil Company has recently rolled off the assembly line, meaning that the branch has been capable of production. ...
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Construction of the first Lexus assembly line in the UShas officially begun, with the Lexus ES350 set to become the first US-built model to roll off the line in 2015. Based at Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s Georgetown plant in ...
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The 2014 CES will be remembered as the year when 3-D printing arrived. Sure, there were plenty of grizzled veterans around who were willing to point out, as 3-D Systems' Avi Reichental did, that "3-D printing is an overnight success 30 ...
Tags: 3-D Printing, Printing, Packaging
Highly adept typists actually have trouble identifying positions of many of the keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard, researchers say, suggesting there's much more to typing than rote learning. The new study "demonstrates that we're capable ...
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