The vision was for workerless plants, operating in the dark, three shifts daily, reproducing parts and subassemblies at ultralow labor cost and with high repeatability and, thus, quality. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Michael Sparks, executive vice president of operations at Mexico, Missouri-based Spartan Light Metal Products, says, "customers have changed from purchasing magnesium parts and subassemblies from us to purchasing from foreign competitors." ❋ Unknown (2011)
We were doing some “smart weapons” subassemblies, and that got moved elsewhere, and a bunch of us (over 600 people) got laid off, including myself. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The feeder industries passed their products to component shops, which in turn passed subassemblies to factories for completion and installation. ❋ Barrett Tillman (2010)
The hierarchy that forms this way is treelike: the overall technology is the trunk, the main assemblies the main branches, their subassemblies the sub-branches, and so on, with the elemental parts the furthest twigs. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
Technologies consisted of parts—assemblies and subassemblies—that were themselves technologies. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
For Hora it would be four: the watch, its main assemblies, subassemblies, and elemental parts. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
But over time it encrusts the new technology with assemblies and subassemblies needed for superior performance. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
This means that the assemblies, subassemblies, and individual parts are all executables—are all technologies. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
Over time it becomes encrusted with systems and subassemblies hung onto it to make it work properly, handle exceptions, extend its range of application, and provide redundancy in the event of failure. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
Doing this would give us the overall technology, its main assembles, subassemblies, sub-subassemblies, and so on, until we arrive at the elemental parts. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
We may not even be aware of these phenomena as we read, but in great fiction, all the parts and subassemblies of creation are integral and mutually supporting. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Of course it is not a perfect tree: the branches and subbranches—assemblies and subassemblies—interact and crosslink at different levels. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
Some of these form a central assembly, others have supporting functions, and these themselves may have subassemblies and subparts. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
So the primary structure of a technology consists of a main assembly that carries out its base function plus a set of subassemblies that support this. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
Hora, by contrast, puts his watches together from 10 assemblies, each consisting of 10 subassemblies, each consisting of 10 parts. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
Both will have significant US content in components and subassemblies. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
The process continues with assemblies hung off the main mode to enhance its working, still other subassemblies hung off these to enhance their working, and yet other assemblies hung off these. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)
