All aboard!ALL ABOARD! Siemens Energy & Automation, Alpharetta, Georgia Alpharetta is a city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. As of 2006 census estimates, the city had a total population of 43,424[1]. Selected for its location next to a spring, it began as a campground, and was originally known as , USA, brought its Exider technology train to Chicago, Illinois, for National Manufacturing Week (NMW NMW National Minimum Wage (UK) NMW No Matter What NMW Naval Mine Warfare NMW Netmeeting Whiteboard NMW Netware Migration Wizard NMW New Message Waiting NMW Nightmare Wrestling ) February 23-26, kicking off a 10-city, coast-to-coast tour of the 1000-foot exhibit on rails. In addition to being the first stop, McCormick Center was the one stop where the rolling exhibit came off its wheels. The nine exhibit cars that normally travel by rail were brought in to McCormick Center. NMW's estimated 30,000 exhibit attendees were able to visit cars dedicated to such customer themes as process and discrete manufacturing Fabricating products by assembling components and subsystems into larger systems. The automated assembly line is the prime example of discrete manufacturing such as in the making of automobiles, household appliances and computer systems. , machine tool components, commercial and residential power distribution, and engineering services. After stops in several cities in March and April, the train will reach Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. May 14, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden May 18, and Seattle May 25. Siemens is using the sleek, blue train as a high-tech platform to showcase its products, solutions and services. Jammed with technology, the 14 rail cars houses 224 plasma screens and monitors, 189 DVD players, four servers, nine miles of electrical cables and almost two miles of data lines. |
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