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FACTORY SET [17 records]

Record 1 2022-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Labour and Employment
CONT

... general labourers at a construction site may use tools such as blowtorches or power drills, direct traffic during road construction, or set up scaffolding. In a factory setting, they may use forklifts or deliver materials. In the cleaning industry, general labourers may be expected to use high-powered cleaning tools, such as floor scrubbing and waxing machines; at other times, they may be asked to use tools such as mops and brooms.

Key term(s)
  • general laborer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Travail et emploi
CONT

Manœuvre général [...] Principales responsabilités : Préparer les commandes (dans la cour); conduire le chariot élévateur; faire le remplissage de l'entrepôt [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Trabajo y empleo
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Record 2 2022-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Ceramics (Industries)
CONT

In the early years of the twentieth century many... ceramic manufacturers... adopted the technique of high-temperature firing and set up small design studios specifically for the use of artist-potters. Pottery designers thus benefited from having factory facilities and technical expertise close at hand, while in exchange the manufacturer gained an on-the-spot source of original design ideas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Céramique (Industries)
DEF

Personne qui conçoit et crée des objets en céramique qui serviront de modèles pour la fabrication en série.

OBS

À cette fin, [le modéliste en céramique] dessine les modèles, les fabrique de ses mains, les cuit, les orne de motifs décoratifs et les recouvre d'émail. Attentif aux désirs de la clientèle, [il] crée des modèles inédits qui sauront lui plaire.

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Installation and Maintenance (Electrical)
OBS

factory adjusted; factory set : terms officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installation et maintenance (Électricité)
OBS

réglé en usine : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
DEF

A physical/computing environment established to support the renovation and testing for conversion projects. Typically, it is set up as an assembly line factory scenario to support high levels of productivity, quality and consistency.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
DEF

Cadre matériel/informatique constitué pour permettre la réalisation de projets de conversion (remise à neuf et essais). Généralement, le centre est aménagé comme une chaîne de montage, ce qui permet d'obtenir des niveaux élevés de productivité, de qualité et d'uniformité.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Servicing and Maintenance (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
CONT

As most cars leave the factory set up for average driver expectations and average conditions, tuning has become a way to personalize the characteristics of the vehicle to the owner's preference. For example cars may be altered to provide better fuel economy, produce more power at high RPM [revolutions per minute] or the ride comfort may be sacrificed to provide better handling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien et réparation (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
DEF

Activité qui consiste à apporter des modifications techniques ou esthétiques à une voiture de série pour la rendre conforme aux goûts du propriétaire.

OBS

personnalisation : terme publié au Journal officiel de la République française le 5 avril 2006.

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Braking Devices (Mechanical Components)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
OBS

the friction-fitted adjustment shoes have been factory set and calibrated for optimum performance at the resistance value established for the transmitter under test.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Freins (Composants mécaniques)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance

Spanish

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Record 7 2002-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Accessories
OBS

Boxes need to be fitted to a set of roof bars. Cars with factory fitted longitudinal roof rails will still need a set of cross bars. Bars need to be a precise fit, particularly on modern cars without rain gutters... Quality boxes should be almost silent in use. Boxes mounted too close to the roof are likely to generate a whistling noise, so roof bars lift them at least 10cm clear of the car roof.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Accessoires d'automobiles et de bicyclettes

Spanish

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Record 8 2001-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Economics
DEF

Set of basic characteristics describing the state of the environment in a given place, factory, industry, etc. at a given time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie environnementale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía del medio ambiente
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Record 9 2001-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electronic Circuits Technology
  • Informatics
  • Life Cycle (Informatics)
CONT

Situations that require changing switch settings include the following : using an uninterruptible power supply; resetting the Dump/Reset to its dump memory setting. The switches are set correctly at the factory for your system configuration. If your system requires a switch change, change only the switch setting for that condition. Otherwise keep the switches at their factory settings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Technologie des circuits électroniques
  • Informatique
  • Cycle de vie (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Measuring Instruments (Engineering)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Navigation Instruments
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
CONT

The NKE gyro pilot steers with the speed..., as the boat's reactions are different if you are doing 5 or 12 knots... there is a factory setting of the average boat speed... A navigation gyro consists of a motor and a heavy disk mounted in a set of gimbals. Sensors on the pivots of the gimbals or otherwise mounted in the case detect the relative movement between the axis of the gyro and the case. The advantage of the gyro over the traditional card compass is that the response is immediate.

CONT

Future commercial applications of MEMS [microelectromechanical systems] are expected to include microfluidic manipulators for implantable drug dispensers, navigation gyros for aerospace use and magnetic and optical storage, switching devices and displays for information technology.

OBS

navigation: The science or art of conducting ships or aircraft from one place to another;...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de mesure (Ingénierie)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Instruments de navigation
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
CONT

L'approximation gyroscopique consiste [...] à admettre, pour le rotor du gyroscope, la condition : [formule xxx]. Dans les gyroscopes de pilotage et de navigation en fonctionnement normal, cette condition est généralement vérifiée.

CONT

Mécanicien avionique. Mécanicien équipements électroniques bord. [...] Le programme d'enseignement porte notamment sur : [...] le contrôle vol moteur, les manomètres, les gyroscopes de navigation, le pilote automatique, les commandes de vol.

OBS

navigation : Technique de la conduite des navires et du pilotage des avions.

Spanish

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Record 11 2001-07-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
CONT

A large scale of organic wastes from intensive production of livestock and city refuse have resulted in major environmental problems. So more attention has been paid to solve the problem by developing a series of manufacturing processing techniques. Alone with it a number of waste treatment plants have been established in persent years. Such composting factory equipped with rotary fermentation tower to make the process aerobically. Because of the process is being carried out by micro-organisms, the management methods should be set to meet the need for aerobic micro-organisms growth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Traitement des eaux
CONT

Une conception rationnelle des tours de fermentation équipées de dispositifs d'aération et de recyclage puissants permet de réduire à quelques jours la durée de fermentation accélérée.

CONT

La fermentation du compost est réalisée soit en tas à l'air libre (fermentation naturelle), soit en silos ou tours de fermentation (fermentation accélérée).

Spanish

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Record 12 1997-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Power Stations
  • Production (Economics)
CONT

MODVAT on Capital Goods for Captive Power Generation.... It is... regretted that MODVAT is not allowed when the same generating set is used for generating captive power but in a separate factory belonging to the same unit. The separate location is for valid operational reasons. For example, a large aluminum company with its smelting operations has located its captive power plant some distance away from the aluminum factory but at a place where it has access to coal and water and other infrastructure. The captive power unit is a big unit and cannot be within the aluminum factory. This unit generates electricity, which is transmitted to its aluminum factory for its exclusive use in the production of aluminum.... the captive power plant should be treated as an extension of the factory as it is used to produce the finished product....

OBS

captive (adj.): owned or controlled by another concern and operated according to its needs or demands rather than for an open market (a captive coal mine).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centrales électriques
  • Production (Économie)
OBS

Voir fiches «production captive», «houillère intégrée» et «mine captive».

Spanish

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Record 13 1991-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Plant (Metallurgy)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et matériels (Métallurgie)

Spanish

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Record 14 1989-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Materiel Management
CONT

Hughes has also supplied 47 two-tube launchers(including test units), eight flightline test sets, 14 missile simularots, three shop test sets, one depot test set and nine factory test sets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du matériel militaire

Spanish

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Record 15 1987-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
CONT

Centres for particular production activities were set up in each factory and special procedures were developed by the company for such work as the assembly of fuselage shells....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs

Spanish

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Record 16 1981-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compressors
CONT

... the sand layer is carried on a floor fitted with bronze, brass or plastic nozzles with fine slots; these nozzles are used both to drain off the filtered water and to admit the wash-water and the scour air-the air can be supplied by an electric compressor set or by compressed air from a factory main.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Compresseurs
CONT

[...] la couche de sable est supportée par un plancher garni de buselures à fentes fines en bronze, laiton ou plastique qui servent aussi bien à drainer l'eau filtrée qu'à répartir l'eau et l'air de lavage. L'air de lavage peut être produit soit par un groupe électrosurpresseur, soit par détente d'air comprimé d'un réseau d'usine.

Spanish

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Record 17 1981-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
  • Dust Removal
OBS

... the sand layer is carried on a floor fitted with bronze, brass or plastic nozzles with fine slots; these nozzles are used both to drain off the filtered water and to admit the wash-water and the scour air-the air can be supplied by an electric compressor set or by compressed air from a factory main.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux
  • Dépoussiérage
OBS

[...] la couche de sable est supportée par un plancher garni de buselures à fentes fines en bronze, laiton ou plastique qui servent aussi bien à drainer l'eau filtrée qu'à répartir l'eau et l'air de lavage. L'air de lavage peut être produit soit par un groupe électrosurpresseur, soit par détente d'air comprimé d'un réseau d'usine.

Spanish

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