In manufacturing, managers are using data from the shop floor to improve quality and lower cost.
These, thanks to a standard language, will be able to plug straight into its virtual shop floor.
The one-month and three-month plots of the weights gets printed out and distributed on the shop floor.
Though unpopular on the shop floor at GM, it's a view still strongly held by senior republicans.
Tomorrow, there'll be 40 shop floor staff from Welsh Remploy factories in the Senedd, fighting for their jobs.
In Saskatchewan, too, the company is fighting the union in court as well as on the shop floor.
For a shop floor worker, walking around with a laptop was untenable, so the iPad made tons of sense.
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Shop floor workers report to supervisors, who are overseen by general managers, who report to executive vice presidents, who answer to DiMicco.
The few workers on duty keep an eye on progress from glassed-in observation posts above the shop floor, watching multiple computer screens.
Manufacturers are bringing an entirely new level of pragmatism to cloud computing, quickly deflating its hype by pushing for results on the shop floor.
The bakery in Headington, Oxford has reported problems with pigeons flying through the front door and across the shop floor helping themselves to food.
From a gallery above the shop floor, prospective bosses can look down on those going about their tasks and select the most diligent workers.
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Three of these lessons, in particular, are worth chewing on by everyone who runs a team, whether from the dugout, corner office or shop floor.
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The opportunities for using economics wisely begin on the shop floor.
We also provide people choices about what they want or need to know right now, wherever they are and whoever they are, from executives to shop floor workers.
He told MPs the government wanted to address the "widening disparity" between boardroom pay and pay on the shop floor that he said had occurred under Labour.
You see, Industrial Mold had initially implemented Socialtext to help facilitate better collaboration between the workers on the shop floor and the desk workers up in the office.
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From the general ledger to the shop floor to the supply chain, these technology investments have been at the foundation of widespread improvements in productivity, profitability, and speed.
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The vote comes after Chancellor Alistair Darling said he wanted people from the "boardroom to the shop floor" to take pay rises "consistent" with the government's 2% inflation target.
He claimed once the announcement had been made, Premier Food had a "mindset" of closure "no matter what proposals were put forward by the shop floor or various organisations".
Chief Superintendent John Wilson, from Strathclyde Police, said it was vital that agencies worked together, shared responsibilities, developed crime prevention strategies and adopted good practice at shop floor and management levels.
Manufacturers can connect shop floor devices to back-end IT.
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So an Apple shop floor assistant does a lot less work than most if not all stores on the high street of the same size but already gets paid more for it.
Payne believes that far from being a dying breed, bosses who work their way up from the shop floor will become increasingly common as fewer people opt to go into higher education.
He said the "tension" between health and safety and profit had caused the "lamentable problems" which had led to ceiling dust possibly containing asbestos falling to the shop floor when it was open.
Until retailers' inventories naturally flood with the updated type, the only way to tell is by switching the slate on and running a utility like GeekBench -- and perhaps there'll be circumstances where you can give that a go on the shop floor.
Techniques to keeping the build cost down, reducing the time from factory to the shop floor (and on to customer) and working with suppliers to support the development of new technology in exchange for long term exclusives on the results, they have all played their part.
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