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...Ryanair has doubled the number of its engineers overseeing Boeing’s production lines following the manufacturing problems that have plagued the US plane maker....
...Traditionally, the main body of a car has been made by welding or stamping together a large number of separate parts....
...Supply chain difficulties have left Boeing struggling to deliver jets to big customers such as Southwest Airlines....
...Manufacturers and retailers must rethink their entire design, manufacturing and sales processes....
...Berkshire in April sold all its holdings in American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest and United Airlines....
...Mr Buffett told Berkshire’s virtual annual meeting that he sold out of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest and United Airlines in April. “It turns out I was wrong,” he said....
...Rivals including Southwest and American have been forced to ground the planes for months as regulators work through the aftermath of two deadly crashes....
...The problem in the US has been exacerbated by the fact that industrial arts classes that were required in prior generations — and gave students at least a taste of skills such as carpentry or welding — have...
...Tesla’s manufacturing woes are well documented....
...Both Southwest and American showed a rise in revenues but higher operating costs and — in the case of Southwest — lower fares weighed on bottom lines....
...In practice, low cost airlines such as Southwest beat them on simplicity and price....
...United followed with a 4.7 per cent advance while Delta Air Lines added 1.9 per cent and Southwest Airlines rose 0.6 per cent....
...In manufacturing, nearly 60 per cent of tasks in jobs such as welding and maintaining equipment are at risk. Higher-paying jobs are not immune from the disruption....
...Praxair, which employs nearly 27,000 people, sells its gas products to companies across the globe in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, petroleum refining, manufacturing and water treatment....
...Robotics have played a part too, with the body shop moving from high levels of manual welding to 93 per cent automation....
...These include, but are not limited to: confirming personnel safety, checking equipment and testing production, before commencing manufacturing again....
...In 2012, GM developed a breakthrough welding technique for the metal, used on its Cadillac CT6, which it says can eliminate nearly two pounds of rivets....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...“There is a new kind of manufacturing – people are going to combine what they do on computers and what they do with making things.”...
...The high-flying S&P could not save its airline index, which tumbled 6 per cent on the back of an 8 per cent decline in shares of Southwest Airlines, amid fears of a price war....
...Ford — whose history of bold innovation goes back to the invention of modern manufacturing by founder Henry Ford a century ago — hopes it is taking a decisive step to win an advantage over rivals....
...The size of the aerospace group’s operations in this city in southwest France and the humming activity in its offices, hangars and assembly lines are not only a testament to Airbus’s success but also a symbol...
...This astonishing engineering feat has been made possible by adopting friction welding techniques borrowed from aerospace and rocket manufacturing....
...In manufacturing – and particularly in light manufacturing where the barriers to entry are lower – it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain profitability for a company with annual China sales ranging...
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