Next he had to turn his manual assembly shop into an automated operation run by real technicians.

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Suppliers will own and operate three of the four factories: the body-welding shop, paint shop and chassis assembly line.

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The 105-acre area, which includes two car assembly plants, a paint shop and offices, accounts for about a quarter of the old site.

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It is planned that parts of the body plant will be equipped to reuse modern robotic automation to produce higher levels of assembly with components from the press shop.

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There will be jobs on the assembly line, jobs in the paint shop, jobs in the dealerships and jobs for the mechanics!

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Honda used the OSU shop to re-design some of the assembly of the 2008 Accord.

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He also got a peek at the NASA engine shop, shuttle landing facility and control tower, vehicle assembly building, and mobile launch platforms, as well as several other difficult-to-remember locales.

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Landi Renzo sets up shop near car manufacturing plants and installs CNG technology into the cars as they roll off the assembly line.

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