Rehder has also been bringing in new equipment to build additional assembly lines. The mask components are readily available because most of them, including the filters, are made in-house. The lines that assemble respirator cups, filters, nose clips, and nose foam are loaded with robots and other automation, while humans tend to packaging and other tasks that allow more easily for social distancing.
Such an inflexible apportionment of jobs, rather like an old-fashioned assembly line, flouts modern management techniques where team members typically float between roles. It is viable during the Olympics because so many workers are volunteers, rewarded only with a garish purple-and-red uniform and, hopefully, a fun time. As Mr Deighton acknowledges, “If you were paying these people you’d obviously reach the conclusion that you could save costs by having fewer of them.”
They also worry that new owners could meddle with Steinway's time-honored and time-consuming manufacturing methods. Steinway spends almost a year building each grand piano, and pianists fret that an assembly line speedup at the company's two factories would spoil what they prize: the delicacy of a Steinway's touch, the colorations of its sound.他們還擔心新主人會插手施坦威歷史悠久和耗時的生產方式。施坦威生產一台三角鋼琴要花費一年時間，鋼琴家們擔心在公司的兩家工廠里安裝高速流水生產線會毀掉他們最珍惜的東西：施坦威鋼琴精美的手感與聲音中豐富的色彩。愛德華·卡拉斯科在施坦威皇后區的工廠工作。施坦威最近出售了它在曼哈頓的大廈，公司即將迎來新主人
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BBC玩一文字遊戲:
聯合國大會叫 Assembly
semaphore lines
The semaphore 號誌or optical telegraph is an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, with towers with pivoting blades or paddles, shutters, in a matrix, or hand-held flags etc. Information is encoded by the position of the mechanical elements; it is read when the blade or flag is in a fixed position. In modern usage it refers to a system of signaling using two handheld flags. Other forms of optical telegraphy include ship flags, Aldis lamps, and Heliographs.
Semaphore lines preceded the electrical telegraph. They were faster than post riders for bringing a message over long distances, but far more expensive and less private than the electrical telegraph lines which would replace them. The distance that an optical telegraph can bridge is limited by geography and weather, thus in practical use, most optical telegraphs used lines of relay stations to bridge longer distances.
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I... moving hands imaged and reimaged in the poem I wrote as semaphores of intimacy or loneliness.
assembly (GATHERING) Show phonetics
noun
1 [C] a group of people, especially one gathered together regularly for a particular purpose, such as government, or more generally, the process of gathering together, or the state of being together:
the United Nations General Assembly
She has been tipped as a future member of the Welsh Assembly.
2 US Assembly one of the two parts of the government that makes laws in many US States:
the New York Assembly
The Senate and the Assembly put aside political differences to pass the aid package.
3 [C or U] a gathering in a school of several classes for a group activity such as singing, a theatrical performance or a film:
All pupils are expected to attend school assembly.
There's a religious assembly every morning.
assembly line noun [C usually singular] (工廠) 裝配(流水)線
a line of machines and workers in a factory which a product moves along while it is being built or produced. Each machine or worker performs a particular job, which must be completed before the product moves to the next position in the line:
assembly-line workers
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