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...This saves time, labour, cost and factory space, replacing multiple robots that weld car parts together with a single machine....
...“It is very hard to get people to talk about this,” says Dan Weld, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle....
...Maybe I am oversentimental, because I inspected their welds as a summer job while I was at school. There are some good reasons to worry about the stability of the revenues of MLPs....
...A life-long New Yorker with an MBA from New York University, Mr Schoenfeld began his career managing the arbitrage department of White Weld & Co, the investment bank, for six years....
...Metal moves when heated, so we tack the pieces with two dots of metal before applying a full weld....
...A visit to Ford’s bodyshop complex in Dearborn, Michigan, shows how much of a gamble the company has taken: it has had to replace its arc welding equipment with machines to screw, rivet, glue and laser-weld...
...ArcelorMittal welds and stamps the part – which is stronger and lighter than most alternative materials – and then delivers the frame to Honda’s factory....
...But will manufacturing companies do the same, and reconsider China as a place to sew, weld and assemble? Certainly there are some who think so....
...“China and its banks are growing out of the posture of China Inc,” says one banker working in project finance at a leading international bank....
...That’s an awful lot of spot welds, but who cares when someone else is paying?...
...He says the miner is already producing rare earths concentrate at Mount Weld in Western Australia but admits the group’s refinery on the east coast of Malaysia “is running a bit late”....
...Simon Turner, ABB Robotics I used to train people to weld. Now I teach them how to programme robots to weld, spray-paint cars and pack pretzels....
...Nirlesh Tomar, a manager at the Hero Honda factory in Gurgaon, north of New Delhi, points to a powder-blue robotic arm as, in a matter of seconds, it welds together two halves of a motorcycle, one of more...
...Their belief in rock as a force for change welds the polemical energy of 1970s punk and 1960s hippy idealism....
...But instead of only cutting, grinding and machining steel plate, it now also welds the steel into structures, and assembles them into fully finished painted products....
...Joining him are Bernard De Backer, Scott Penwell, and Timothy Weld, all former members of his team....
...Before joining SBC in 1989, he had worked at Credit Suisse White Weld, Hill Samuel and Merrill Lynch. He was a keen sailor....
...In his first job, at the eurobond house Credit Suisse White Weld, Keelan – barely more than a graduate trainee – was in a meeting with much more senior colleagues when the conference room telephone kept...
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