The 787 program opened its final assembly plant in Everett, Washington in May 2007.
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GammaTech is headquartered in Fremont, California, which provides the final assembly, inventory, service and technical support.
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The final assembly (which the customer does, Ikea-style, at home) doesn't require even a drop of glue.
Bits and pieces of the plane are being made all over Europe, with final assembly in Toulouse.
The two companies will share fabrication and final assembly of the vehicles among plants at Anniston, Ala.
This whole process takes eight months from final assembly until the keys are handed over and delivered.
The team also toured the Ford Rouge Factory, to see the final assembly process for the Ford F-150 truck.
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We've done that with our final assembly and we're now working with vendors farther down in the supply chain.
For example, it makes sense to transport through Hong Kong components manufactured in Shanghai for final assembly in Shenzhen.
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Much of Dell's production, up to the point of final assembly, is outsourced.
Looking to improve component availability in final assembly, they ranked worst performing facilities on a small set of key metrics.
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The forward island earlier left Portsmouth Naval Base for its sea voyage to Rosyth, where the ship's final assembly will take place.
At Smyrna, for instance, different body styles start out on parallel lines and are then brought together for painting and final assembly.
As in most auto factories, the majority of final assembly is done by manual labor, but even here, Chery's operations seem less efficient.
The North Wales factory that makes Airbus wings is rated as the firm's best site, and will retain wing design and final assembly.
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The system fits into a standard shipping container and can be sent by rail or truck to the end customer, where final assembly takes place.
It also assembles ERJ-145s in an Embraer joint venture, with the Harbin production lines reportedly switching to final assembly of Embraer Legacy business jets in several months.
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The Operations and Checkout building will soon serve as the final assembly facility for the Orion capsule during NASA's next phase of space exploration, the Constellation program.
Seven suppliers helped to erect a Volkswagen truck plant in the town, and employ three-quarters of the factory's 1, 400 workers, even participating in the truck's final assembly.
The immediate cause of the disaster was a breakdown in the snap-together final assembly process in Toulouse that has served the company well for over 30 years.
Since production began in November 1971, 2, 934 wing sets have been manufactured and delivered for the European Airbus consortium to the final assembly lines in France and Germany.
This new facility will serve as Tesla's European service and parts headquarters, as well as the final assembly and distribution point for Model S vehicles sold in Europe.
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Today it's not uncommon for suppliers to build large chunks of an automobile--a complete dashboard or a front-end module, say--at their own factories, then ship them to the auto plant for final assembly.
Investing in robots can be worthwhile for mass manufacturers like carmakers, who remain the biggest users of such machines, but even in highly automated car factories people still do most of the final assembly.
Hitachi CM, with flat-screen TV to make the results developed by Hitachi Consumer Electronics, for final assembly process to ensure that the consignment to the outside, we will build a stable business base for flat-panel TV business.
David Pritchard, an American academic and consultant who has studied both companies, says that Airbus must now send more basic work to cheap-labour countries in Asia with currencies tied to the dollar, keeping only high-added-value stuff and final assembly in Europe.
Walking through the hangar of the final assembly line and catching a glimpse of one of the 1, 500 engineers that work there, it's almost as if the Airbus headquarters was in Lilliput, taking care of the plane that Gulliver could have traveled in.
It has been forced to cede ground on this to its partners, British Aerospace and Dasa, which both want factories working on Airbus planes to be owned and run by the new company, even though the wings, tails and cockpits have to be flown around Europe in a specially converted aeroplane, known as the Beluga, before final assembly.
Outside of Singapore, regional tech companies are mostly final-assembly contractors and semiconductor packaging companies.
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