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Looking to improve component availability in final assembly, they ranked worst performing facilities on a small set of key metrics.
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The union, which did not return calls from NPR, will also work with General Motors as it cuts 25, 000 jobs at US assembly and component part plants.
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In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.
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Replacement and repair of this equipment should provide at least a short term revenue opportunity for companies such as KLA-Tencor, Flexstar, Teradyne and Xyratex as well as a host of other component and hard disk drive assembly and test equipment companies .
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Based upon the use and layout of the flooded facilities the sort of equipment that may be most likely to be needed include: back end drive testers, metrology and process measurement equipment, rowbar and slider process equipment (for head manufacturing), automation and material handling equipment and other specialized equipment used in recording head and other component manufacturing, as well as drive assembly and test equipment.
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It is estimated that the project will add 6, 000 assembly jobs and 10, 000 jobs with component suppliers.
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Shih's Acer has several large computer assembly plants in China, as do many of its component suppliers, most of whom manufacture in Dongguan, Guangdong province.
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Further, Dell eschewed the costly product development of competitors like Compaq in favor of using a limited number of component suppliers ( Microsoft, Intel, etc.) and focusing on assembly.
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