But Canon is hardly the only firm to shift from assembly-line to small production cells.
Instead we get Teaching By Rote 2.0 and a deeper entrenchment of the school-as-assembly-line model.
The actual is sliced, diced and winched forward, only to tumble off time's assembly-line into the great slag-heap of now.
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The inherited secondary manufacturing and assembly-line skills will not last long enough to uphold economic success and make it sustainable.
Some bacteria, it turned out, produce polyketides in an assembly-line fashion in much the same way that General Motors produces cars.
Employees directly involved in the production of what a company makes think assembly-line workers are generally entitled to overtime.
This has translated into a vast reduction in waste and assembly-line slowdowns.
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Ivan and his peers will be America's next generation of entrepreneurs and farm workers, engineers and assembly-line employees, inventors, nurses, teachers -- and doctors.
Why do we volunteer to spend our time in the same way as assembly-line journalists who are being jack-hammered into a state of frantic fatigue?
Migrants flooded in from the interior, working construction and assembly-line jobs.
Be it back-office or assembly-line, one single unmotivated team member is not only difficult to manage but can bring down the moral of an entire team.
Even routine practices, such as the assembly-line production of documents in real estate closings, have become a minefield as banks sue their own lawyers over soured loans.
Among other things, when management installed slightly brighter light bulbs, or changed the length of assembly-line breaks during the work day, they noticed that productivity picked up.
What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take sixty percent or more of his extra pay?
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Japan had pushed product design and the assembly-line genius of Henry Ford to new heights, which let it scale up volume and push down the price of Old Economy products.
He sees Personal Capital providing a transparent, high-quality, mass-customized service for these investors and moving past the paternal, craftsman-like approach of a full-service brokerage or the assembly-line mentality of mutual funds.
Assembly-line manufacturing, for instance, was conducive to union organisation.
The partnership between HealthSouth and the clinic enabled Andrews to perform an amazing 15 to 20 surgeries a day (five times the usual rate for orthopedists), twice a week, in assembly-line fashion.
Think of the assembly-line model for public education: all our boys and girls sent to school so they can become good little factory workers, accustomed to taking orders and standing in line.
Another worker, who would identify himself only as Mr. Xiao, started as an assembly-line worker almost three years ago, just after graduating from a technical school in central China, where Hon Hai recruited him.
This has a humanizing effect on the notion of how businesses have operated for over a century: replacing the assembly-line, a cog-in-the-machine view of the industrialized world, with one with a greater focus on people.
As manufacturing jobs have shifted from assembly-line positions to advanced manufacturing, schools like Lorain County Community College have partnered with non-profits, business, and government to develop job training programs that help equip dislocated workers with skills that match employer needs.
Among them: suggesting how many blueprints an engineer should have on his desk, deciding how far to travel to perform an assembly-line task and reducing the time it takes to hire and orient a new employee from 23 to 7 days.
As manufacturing jobs have shifted from assembly-line positions to advanced manufacturing, Lorain County Community College has worked with non-profit, government, and business partners to develop job training programs that train dislocated workers with the skills to meet the needs of employers today and in the future.
One goal of this approach is to eliminate non-value-added activities in Chrysler plants in a thoroughgoing way that the company never has attempted before, down to shaving steps required by an assembly-line operator to complete a given task by asking the worker to redesign the job.
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They may not look inspiring, but deep in the recesses of their brains they have these little ideas--a fast-food restaurant concept no one has ever anticipated, an assembly-line innovation that can lower production costs by 50%, a retirement-plan wrinkle to save everyone's 401(k)--and, someday, assuming they can find their toothbrushes amid the stash of moisturizing-cream bottles in their travel bags, they are going to realize their dreams.
Now this close-knit community is tackling its biggest project of all: reinventing a small-scale assembly line as a modern-day technological hub.
Henry Ford's automated car-assembly line spawned a galaxy of parts factories filled with workers.
A320s a month on a final-assembly line in the northern port city of Tianjin.
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