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unusual facts about assembly line


Assembly line

Sociological work has explored the social alienation and boredom that many workers feel because of the repetition of doing the same specialized task all day long.


Brede Works

At the museum of Industrial culture, the visitors can be guided around by its own virtual person between old machines, hear how Denmark became an industrial society and even try to work at an assembly line.

Casa Sanchez Foods

Casa Sanchez began when two immigrants, Roberto and Isabel Sanchez from Zacatecas, Mexico, established the first mechanized tortilla factory in Northern California.

Charles E. Sorensen

Sorensen (with others, notably Walter Flanders, Clarence Avery, and Ed Martin) is credited with developing the first automotive assembly line, having formulated the idea of moving a product (for cars, this would be in the form of the chassis) through multiple workstations.

Unimate

which worked on a General Motors assembly line at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, in 1961.


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Airbus A330 MRTT

Standard commercial A330-200s are delivered from Airbus Final Assembly Line in Toulouse (France) to Airbus Military Conversion Centre in Getafe, Spain for fitting of refuelling systems and military avionics.

Airbus Helicopters EC175

An initial assembly line for the EC175 is expected to be established at Airbus Helicopters' Marignane plant, with a second Airbus Helicopters assembly line to follow three or four years later.

Automotive industry in France

2001 - Toyota built its Western European assembly line for the Toyota Yaris in Valenciennes.

Bob Edwards

Coincidentally, the last show also included a segment about the last Oldsmobile, which rolled off an assembly line the day before.

Clénet Coachworks

Originally started in a garage, the company was moved into an airplane hangar where an assembly line style of production was begun, later to be reborn in a "high tech" facility in Goleta, California (just north of Santa Barbara) where production of Series II continued until the company ran into financial difficulties in 1980, ceased production, and Alain Clénet filed for bankruptcy.

Dave F. Sullivan

While earning a B.B.A in management from Western Michigan University, Sullivan spent a summer working for Ford on the assembly line at Michigan Assembly Plant, formerly known as Michigan Truck Plant.

Frank L. Madla

The first San Antonio-made Toyota Tundra rolled off the assembly line only days before Madla's death.

Gibson Les Paul Doublecut

Many believe these newer archtop doublecut Les Pauls were developed in response to the high-end guitars of Gibson competitor Paul Reed Smith (PRS), whose PRS guitars most typically have a doublecut design and master tone and volume controls, and whose production eventually went from a small shop (as Hamer's has stayed) to an assembly-line production rivaling Gibson's.

Kaisis Motor Company

Of note was the company’s purchase (in 1974) of the blueprints to the Clan sports car, designed by a team of former Lotus engineers, with plans to set up an assembly line in KMC’s new factory near Nicosia International Airport.

Malcolm Pryce

including BMW assembly-line worker in Germany, hotel washer-up, "the world's worst aluminium salesman", and deck hand on a yacht in Polynesia, Pryce became an advertising copywriter in London and Singapore.

Renault Vel Satis

The Vel Satis shares its "platform" (chassis, powertrain, assembly process) with the Laguna and Espace IV and was produced on the same assembly line in Sandouville, France.

Robot end effector

The end effector of an assembly line robot would typically be a welding head, or a paint spray gun.

Saturn S-Series

The first Saturn to leave the assembly line in the Spring Hill, Tennessee factory was on July 30, 1990, the same day that then-CEO of GM, Roger Bonham Smith, retired.

Suspension of disbelief

Likewise, the various Terminators played by Arnold Schwarzenegger are supposed to be standardized units from the same assembly line, but the original cyborg in 1984's The Terminator looks noticeably younger than the cyborgs with the "same" organic covering that appear in the 1991 and 2003 sequel movies.

Thierry Noritop

In 2008, the NYC record label Minimal Wave Records formed by Veronica Vasicka in 2005 re-released Somewhere in the night including the title song and the full Assembly line LP released in 1985.

Vision Research Phantom

The Miro line of small, lightweight cameras is used for mobile applications or situations where size and weight might be an issue in applications such as assembly line analysis, drop testing, particle image velocimetry (PIV), animal studies, bio-mechanical studies and automotive testing.

Volvo C70

Volvo's first modern convertible, the C70 was manufactured in Uddevalla, Sweden on a separate assembly line from the 70-series sedan and station wagon.

Yves Bolduc

Over his years as a practitioner, Bolduc was more specialized in service accessibility, and he recently implemented methods inspired from the Toyota assembly line to better manage the operating room at the Val-d'Or Hospital.