Sentences with phrase «timed production line»

At issue is payment to meat - processing workers based on what is known as gang time, which counts only the time the production line runs.

The Business Secretary denied being close to tears as he spoke at Wednesday's meeting, but admitted «I do feel very strongly» about it, before highlighting the importance of having a customs deal with «the minimum of frictions» to firms operating a just - in - time production line such as Toyota, which employs 3,500 people at plants in North Wales and Derbyshire.

Not exact matches

Over the weekend, Tesla revealed that it halted its Model 3 production lines in February to give the company time to make improvements.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

They did a deal with DariFill, a maker of ice cream - manufacturing equipment, and approached co-packers with an offer: If they built a new line dedicated to Halo Top, Eden Creamery would finance the new equipment purchases and guarantee a full production run for an extended period of time.

In a time when robotic production lines are eating away at manufacturing jobs, CEOs like Thomson Li, the founder of China - based electronics manufacturer TCL Corp, must prepare for the future.

I tried to roll with the times, but nary a sheet of tin has rolled of our own production lines in over 30 years.

They also found chipped, cracked, and missing pieces of plastic on the onion production line; knives that were used to remove unwanted pieces of onions had initials etched into them; and blue tape that was being used to temporarily fix a cracked metal plate on a packing line where products meant for export were packed at the time of the inspection.

«At the same time, we see significant momentum for alternative energy vehicles, an inferior competitive landscape and continued progress on Model 3 production driving more than 70 % top - line growth this year, easily one of the fastest ever by a multibillion - dollar company.

American Giant launched a women's line in May; the growth forecast for 2013 is 10 times greater than last year; production capacity is 20 times what it was in December; and the company is beating its own sales projections.

But instead of starting by creating, say, one or two production lines in Buffalo at a time, it purchased a fraction of the equipment necessary for even a single production line of Whitney panels.

For example, by combining IoT with AI and real - time data analytics, manufacturers can predict equipment problems before they occur and conduct preventative maintenance, eliminating costly downtime on the production line.

During the temporary shutdown of Model S and Model X production, Hochholdinger said workers who don't move to the Model 3 line will have to take unpaid time off or can use paid vacation days.

For a time we started to look at numbers like electric - power production and freight traffic to get a line on actual economic growth because no one believed the gross - domestic - product figures.

Gold production and costs for the quarter were in line with expectations, with higher production and lower costs expected in the second half of 2018 driven by the timing of capital expenditures, higher throughput, and improved grades.

The new production line will have a monthly capacity of 75 million sheets, four times higher than that of its existing flexible OLED facility, according to the Yonhap News Agency.

The lawsuit claims employees have been systematically underpaid for the time it takes to take off and put on protective gear during unpaid meal breaks, walking to and from production lines, waiting in line for equipment, waiting in line to clean equipment and cleaning equipment.

Your post made me chuckle a few times and there is certainly some truth in it, particularly from the production - line style artists (I'm generally thinking the big church praise bands) who seem to produce so much stuff that it's become incredibly generic.

I believe in hell, we're making it all the time: war, murder, violence, poverty, abuse, to name a few — an endless production line for tormented souls.

Every employee has the authority to shut down a production line at any time if they see fit.»

Manufacturers are lean right now and R&D resources and testing time on production lines for new products continue to be a premium for the firm's customers.

Vision systems are an important tool on production lines to inspect product quality in real - time.

Contract packaging companies make use of a range of different machines, typically utilized on automated lines for faster production and turnaround times.

Eagle also presented a light - emitting diode (LED) Marquee Display Unit (MDU) that can be installed on meat production lines upstream from the EAGLE ™ FA720 Series to transmit real - time CL data to operatives working at the trimming or packing stations.

The compact system is time and cost effective, with a small space footprint allowing it to be easily be deployed over existing conveyor belts without having to modify the production line or change plant layout.

At any one time, five or six of the lines will be running simultaneously while others are receiving maintenance, are in sanitation mode or are being set up for another production run.

Production lines are equipped with real - time quality assurance systems that continuously record data.

For example, real - time quality control checks and overall equipment effectiveness feedback is now available digitally from the production lines.

GrandyOats began thinking about offering a gluten - free product line a few years ago, but at that time, its facility didn't allow for the creation of an isolated production area that could guarantee that there would be no cross-contamination of product.

Under intense pressure to operate efficiently, cheese plants are sometimes forced to adjust their process times due to starter cultures that don't perform consistently, which causes production delays that impact quality and, ultimately, the bottom line.

With solutions such as our Heaford AutoMounters for label and flexible packaging production, every plate can be automatically mounted off - line, in perfect register every time.

This high level of monitoring is further supported by the Ishida Data Capture System (IDCS) which records and analyses data from every pack that goes across each checkweigher to provide fully customisable real - time production information and displays the line's Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) in terms of availability, performance and quality.

When rolls are being changed, say, once every 20 minutes, as may be the case with pre-applied zipper film, that time adds up — over an hour and a half of production time lost in a single 8 - hour shift on a single line,» says Chris Graff, vice-president of sales and marketing at the Massachusetts - based Butler Automatic Inc. «That's an hour and a half's worth of packages not being made, shipped and sold from that line during each shift.»

Mengibar products and services deliver optimization of the line efficiency, extremely accurate dosage, reduction of production costs and stand stills, reduction of cleaning and maintenance time with better access to the machine and better...

Consequently it reduces filling machine stops, raises up - time and avoids eventual damage to packages queuing on your production line.

Packages can be decorated in - line at production, simplifying the supply chain and reducing the time to market.

SIMBA Enterprise offers high volume seafood processors the ability to record product details in real - time without slowing down the production line.

In either case, adding real - time meat and poultry analysis directly to your production lines will simplify the operating process and help you save time and improve yield.

We like to imagine a happier time where there was a production line from the famous Academy of Football into the national team.

«They'll provide real time information on resource flows, production lines and distribution centres,» Rifkin says.

We are continuing those conversations and by the time the Forcados line is repaired in July, we should be able to come back to our production ceiling for this year, of 2.2 million.

A mini will cross the Channel three times in a 2,000 - mile journey before the finished car rolls off the production line.

That killed the high cost of perfectly aligning production lines so robots got parts at precise times.

The trouble is that there have been so few successes in converting military production lines into civilian ones that when the former designers and builders of radar systems saw the opportunity they grabbed it — all of them, at the same time and without any coordination, says Cooper.

Every time the factory loses cells, or makes dysfunctional cells, the assembly line will then need to speed up that much more in order to achieve that day's production quota.

Steven Spielberg's «The Post,» rushed into production on a turnaround time that only Ridley Scott could possibly match, may be the story of a challenge to the free press in 1971 but lines like that solidify how much it's intended to also be read as a mirror of 2017.

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Long - time indie New Line Cinema was eaten up by Warner Bros., which allowed it to run autonomously for a while; it's now a production label.

Alongside the touch of glamour that Binoche will undoubtedly bring to the Festival there's a rich and impressive line - up of the best new French cinema including 20 Irish premieres; a wealth of visiting special guests including Béatrice Dalle, Benoit Jacquot, Reba Kateb, Héléna Klotz and Alice de Lencquesaing, our annual celebration new talent in our First - Time Director's strand and a continuing celebration of 50 years of the iconic production company Les Films de Losange.

It's a far cry from the production time of Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures, but it's in line with what Nintendo produces for its own amiibo characters.