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Word: teruhiko (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yamazaki's management is enthusiastic about its new factory, which will operate around the clock, seven days a week, all year long. Says President Teruhiko Yamazaki: "The accuracy is better than humans can do, and the machines never have a blue Monday." To keep the equipment as precisely tuned as possible, workers help re-sharpen each machining center's drum of accessory tools every six or seven days. Such tasks, and programming the factory's computers, are all that the plant now requires of employees. There are normally ten to twelve workers in the plant during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, No Hands | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

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