Until now, chassis and engine cradles were stamped into clamshell shapes and welded together.
They're small and flimsy even when two of the discs are welded together at the edges.
Welded together, they form a maze designed so kids can get "lost" while parents keep watch from a nearby hill.
The structural steel rolls in from a loading bay, and machines fabricate it into parts that are welded together to form the frame.
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The suppliers, not Chrysler, would assume responsibility for running large sections of the factory, such as the body shop, where steel car frames are welded together by robots.
It is characteristic Caro giant plates of rusting steel, bolted and welded together into four sets of tall, step-like forms, back to back, which gives them the appearance of ziggurats.
The key to pulling it off is the serial number assigned to each vehicle at the very first stage of production, where metal parts are welded together to form an engine compartment.
It has been fabricated off-site and delivered in seven sections where it has been welded together, received its final aluminium silver paint finish and had its fully enclosed glazed walkway put in place ready for the lift.
It would be two weeks before that Stryker would roll outside the wire again, this in an environment where trucks totaled by IEDs are welded back together and sent again into harm's way in mere hours.
It also employs 70, 000 fewer people than it did when Mer welded its pieces together.
Most of the work to restore the damaged sign was done on site, but a master blacksmith welded it back together.
The larger pieces are then bolted together and the bolts welded to the frame, with each smaller piece then painstakingly screwed into place.
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