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  2. Washboarding - Wikipedia

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    Washboarding or corrugation [1] is the formation of periodic, transverse ripples in the surface of gravel and dirt roads. Washboarding occurs in dry, granular road material [ 2 ] with repeated traffic, traveling at speeds above 8.0 kilometres per hour (5 mph). [ 3 ]

  3. Bay Area Rapid Transit rolling stock - Wikipedia

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    The work was done between 1998 and 2002 at first by Pittsburg, California-based ADtranz and later by Bombardier which acquired the company in 2001. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] A cars, (fleet numbers 101–276) were either rebuilt while retaining their cab (and renamed A2 cars, fleet numbers 1164–1276), or rebuilt without a cab (converted into B2 cars ...

  4. Corrugated box design - Wikipedia

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    Partial overlap box with interlocking slots to temporarily close box Corrugated plastic box used as reusable packaging. Corrugated box design is the process of matching design factors for corrugated fiberboard (sometimes called corrugated cardboard) or corrugated plastic boxes with the functional physical, processing and end-use requirements.

  5. Toyota Industries - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded on 18 November 1926 as Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. by Sakichi Toyoda, the inventor of a series of manual and machine-powered looms.The most significant of these was the 1924 Toyoda Automatic Loom, Type G, a completely automatic high-speed loom featuring the ability to change shuttles without stopping and dozens of other innovations.

  6. Corrugated fiberboard - Wikipedia

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    Boxes can be formed in the same plant as the corrugator. Such plants are known as "integrated plants". Part of the scoring and cutting takes place in-line on the corrugator. Alternatively, sheets of corrugated board may be sent to a different manufacturing facility for box fabrication; these are sometimes called "sheet plants" or "converters".

  7. Lights out (manufacturing) - Wikipedia

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    An automatic factory is a place where raw materials enter, and finished products leave with little or no human intervention. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] One of the earliest descriptions of the automatic factory in fiction was the 1955 short story " Autofac ," by Philip K. Dick .

  8. Corrugated - Wikipedia

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    Corrugated fiberboard, also called corrugated cardboard; Corrugated galvanised iron, a building material composed of sheets of cold-rolled hot-dip galvanised mild steel ...

  9. Process automation system - Wikipedia

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    The information is stored and analyzed on a computer and the entire plant and each piece of production equipment can be monitored on a large screen in a control room. Plant operating settings are then automatically adjusted to achieve the optimum production. Plant operators can manually override the process automation systems when necessary.