Unions protested the new technique of flexible manufacturing pioneered by Toyota and embraced around the world.
The result is a workforce willing to adapt to the Palio's requirement for flexible manufacturing.
The company is late in introducing flexible manufacturing, which allows production of three or more vehicle types on a single assembly line.
Company spokesman Oscar Suris said Martens' departure would not affect Ford's product pipeline, nor the firm's desire to build products in flexible manufacturing facilities.
Lyons remains an important site for Nexans, both for its new research centre and a highly flexible manufacturing plant that can produce more than 2, 500 different types of cable.
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Cooper believes stabilizing raw material costs, flexible manufacturing operations, profitable investments and competitive labor agreements will help it improve results moving ahead despite of the headwinds faced by the industry.
Honda has probably gone furthest down the road to flexible global manufacturing.
Although Mr Peruvemba says his firm has started manufacturing displays with flexible backplanes in-house, its many partners are also busy researching ways to make electronic paper as flexible as the real thing.
Digital tools make product design and manufacturing easier, cheaper and more flexible.
Corning will use its patented fusion glass manufacturing process to produce a slim, flexible glass almost five times thinner than the standard display glass.
First, the reindustrialization of America: The U.S. is an increasingly attractive manufacturing platform because of productivity gains, more flexible labor markets, technological advances and lower energy costs.
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According to Korean news site etnews, technology that Samsung bought to help protect flexible displays from moisture and air damage is bogging down its manufacturing process.
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Graphene is far stronger than steel, more conductive than copper and more flexible than rubber so it could potentially open up entirely new avenues for manufacturing, consumer products and medical devices.
In manufacturing, innovations such as programmable machine tools make capital equipment more flexible, creating a demand for more flexible human capital, too.
Further, as manufacturing moves toward a more information-intensive, automated, and flexible future, it is returning to the US. With new materials, new techniques and demands for mass-customization, manufacturing will increasingly rely on knowledge, design capabilities, innovation and research.
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