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Suppliers will own and operate three of the four factories: the body-welding shop, paint shop and chassis assembly line.
Ultimately, says Ford, the system could power one-third of the plant's paint shop.
The paint shop will occupy a new building at the plant, so vehicle production schedules will not be affected.
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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!
One of the casualties of MG Rover's 2005 collapse was Andy Cartwright, who had worked in the paint shop for 15 years.
Cartridges are expensive, but the change made the paint shop more efficient.
The 105-acre area, which includes two car assembly plants, a paint shop and offices, accounts for about a quarter of the old site.
The paint shop is the most expensive, and most polluting, aspect of any automotive factory, and is often the source of production bottlenecks.
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They asked in the paint shop how long the bad weather would last and were advised that the outlook for several days was not good.
To try to keep up with demand, it offers the truck only in white to save the time it takes to change colors in the factory paint shop.
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Of the 20 or so hours that elapse from start to finish when a Camry, Solara or Avalon is built at Toyota's Georgetown factory, half are spent in the paint shop.
But the upside is that by taking control of the plant's body or paint shop, for instance, a supplier can expect a bigger chunk of revenue from Chrysler for years to come.
Tata Motors boosts its revenue by making dies for Jaguar, Ford, General Motors and Toyota, too, just as it does by allowing the made-in-India Mercedes to be run through its paint shop.
While the paint shop is as modern as any U.S. factory's, workers wearing respirators (but no eye protection) still use small paintbrushes, rather than automated tools, to slather sealant on critical weld spots.
But, ironically, the Japanese automaker would never consider outsourcing a quality-sensitive operation like a body shop or paint shop, says Jeffrey Liker, a University of Michigan engineering professor and author of The Toyota Way.
Dimitris Mavrogiannis, who owns an auto-paint shop in the New Kosmos district of Athens, says he usually issues receipts, especially as a lot of his work is for insurance companies, who insist on them.
Among the improvements is a new 450, 000 square-foot state-of the-art paint shop that will consume dramatically less energy and water, resulting in an estimated 50 percent reduction in energy use per vehicle, GM said.
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One way would be to use image manipulation software - such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro - to create a fake message that would look similar to the original, but with different content.
In all, the firm installed only 40 or so robots, mainly in the stamping area and the paint-shop.
Taken together, the shifts paint a macro picture of the trends bubbling at the stores we shop.
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