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- Factory 2-U Stores Inc.
- Factory 2-U Stores operate a chain of off-price retail apparel and housewares stores in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Co. sells...
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- Factory
- a building or set of buildings housing workers and equipment for the sole purpose of manufacturing goods, often on a large scale
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- Toyota Suspends China factory After Quake
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp on Monday suspended production at a 13,000 units-a-year joint-venture factory in Chengdu, southwestern China, after a powerful earthquake struck, killing at least 107 people. A spokeswoman in Tokyo said operations at the factory, held ...
- News items 2008-05-12
- Toyota Suspends China Plant After Quake
- TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp on Monday suspended production at a 13,000-units-a-year joint venture plant in Chengdu, southwestern China, after a powerful earthquake struck, killing at least 107 people. A spokeswoman in Tokyo said operations at the factory, held ...
- News items 2008-05-12
- More Airbus factory Sale Talks Collapse
- By Tim Hepher and James Regan PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters UK) - Airbus scrapped plans to sell two French factories to one of its suppliers on Wednesday, bowing to the global credit crisis for the second time in a month after a similar sale collapsed in Germany. The...
- News items 2008-05-07
- A New Method to Determine the Tool Count of Semiconductor factory Using FABSIM
- This paper describes an efficient heuristic to determine the tool count using the compact fab simulator FabSim Interactive. A combination of the Simulated Annealing algorithm and the knowledge of toolset usage, which is gained by repeated simulation of the factory, results in a fast approach. There are no restrictions concerning...
- White papers 2004-11-11
- Get Better Results From factory Reps
- Joint efforts between factory or independent reps and distributor salespeople amount to ineffective tagalongs, with the rep riding shotgun while the distributor salesperson makes his or her scheduled stops that day. Distributors that develop specific goals and strategies for working with factory reps can achieve above average results. Also, the...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Location, Logistics, Location : Just-In-Time Is Key Imperative For Site Decisions
- Not that long ago, manufacturers built their factories in their hometowns to serve local customers. Over time they expanded, building more factories around the country to serve more customers. They built warehouses to store products manufactured weeks or months before they would be needed. Those warehouses were scattered around the...
- White papers 2000-10-01
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- factory Built Housing
- The concept of factory-built housing isn’t new. Today, even conventional site-built homes are using an increasing amount of factory-assembled components. Roof and floor trusses, pre-hung doors and windows, modular cabinets and fiberglass bath and shower units are standard prefab items. Because factory-built houses are built all or partly within factory...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- An Integrated Simulation Method to Support Virtual factory Engineering
- This paper presents a structure and architecture of an integrated simulation method (ISM) to meet the requirements of virtual factory engineering (VFE). Combining CAD, VR and discrete event simulation techniques, the ISM provides static and dynamic simulation functions for implementation of VFE throughout the lifecycle. The dynamic simulation enables us...
- White papers 2003-02-14
- How to Pass FDA factory Inspections
- "Be prepared" is the best advice one can give. Those executives who have suffered an import ban following a factory inspection by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) know the value of this advice. Despite this obvious statement, many medical device companies do not spend enough time developing their...
- White papers 2004-07-26
- Rolling Horizon Scheduling In Large Job Shops
- The white paper asserts that the Virtual Factory is a job shop scheduling tool that was developed at NC State. It has been shown to provide nearoptimal solutions to industrial-sized problems in seconds through comparison to a computed lower bound. It is an iterative simulation-based procedure, whose objective is minimizing...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Modeling Computer Assembly Operations for Supply Chain Integration
- Factory operations have been modeled for years to understand the relationship between the different design and policy factors and the performance measures of interest. The increasing awareness of the need to manage factories as a link in the supply chain places a corresponding requirement for an enhanced approach for factory...
- White papers 2002-11-15
- Gostomel Glass factory
- The Gostomel Glass Factory near Kiev, Ukraine wanted to use the waste heat (coolant and exhaust) from the generators to provide heating for the manufacturing processes in the glass factory. FG Wilson was able to offer a complete natural gas-powered CHP (combined heat and power) system to provide 1250kWe of...
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- Product Perspective 2Q 2001
- This article defines the Solutions That Improve Productivity Throughout Your Product Life Cycle These factors include: Research and development ,Process and manufacturing system design Ramp-to-volume manufacturing , Production optimization/yield improvement , Factory-to-factory transfer and integration , Asset management
- White papers 2003-01-01
- factory Clerk
- The Factory Clerk job description template includes the following job summary: To perform a variety of clerical recordkeeping and reporting functions for a manufacturing or service department. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- factory Worker, Light
- The Factory Worker, Light job description template includes the following job summary: To perform unskilled production work such as feeding machines, sorting, checking, and packaging light materials. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Solectron: Achieving Real Success With the Virtual factory
- Solectron has developed a virtual factory floor - MyFactory@SLR.com - based on Internet technologies. By Web-enabling all essential applications and services, team members anywhere have full-time visibility into all aspects of the manufacturing process through a personalized portal. This comprehensive system has improved communication, planning, sourcing, procurement, and collaboration between...
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- Job Instructor--Safety
- The Job Instructor?Safety job description template includes the following job summary: Under direction of the safety manager, to carry out a comprehensive training program and to provide group or one-on-one training for new factory employees and employees being trained for new factory operations. Additional information available includes essential job functions,...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Manufacturing Index Unchanged in April: ISM
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Factory activity contracted in April according to a report released on Thursday, although the level of retrenchment remained steady. The Institute for Supply Management said its index of national factory activity was unchanged in April from March at ...
- News items 2008-05-01
- Virtual Automotive Production
- DaimlerChrysler's approach to digital manufacturing is well under way. Having begun in 2000, the Digital Factory Project is delivering the first results in increasing planning quality while cutting production planning times and efforts considerably. The entire production scenario takes place inside a computer system at DaimlerChrysler, a digital vehicle passing...
- White papers 2003-04-15
- Duro-Last Provides New Life for: Wyoming Hospital Roof
- With lives and millions of dollars of medical equipment at risk, roof leaks in a hospital can have devastating results. That's exactly what hospital administrators at Powell Hospital in Powell, Wyoming were faced with. The officials liked Duro-Last's prefabrication because it would ensure a higher quality roof; 80-85% of the...
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