11.   She made her way across the factory floor and it was when she was nearly back at the occupational health centre that she heard a whistle.

12.   The way in which we work, whether it be in an office or on the factory floor, has undergone a major transformation in the past decade.

13.   These developments were accompanied by changes in work practices, shaped partly by the nature of the new machinery and partly by struggle on the factory floor.

14.   The unions had almost no influence on the factory floor and were ineffective in collective bargaining.

15.   AME members go to those companies, walk their factory floors, talk to their employees and managers, and study their techniques.

16.   And just as an answer has eluded the Federal Reserve, there is no clear explanation for the mixed message found in showrooms and on factory floors here.

17.   And now, with Allen-Bradley and Reliance salespeople working in teams, it is offering systems to control everything that transpires on a factory floor.

18.   And now that so many of them are middle-class professionals, the glue of believing that they all worked on the factory floor has also dissolved.

19.   Another product, Valisys, lets an engineer define a perfect product, then use the information to program inspection machinery on the factory floor.

20.   As in years past, many will crowd into office conference rooms with television sets or flip on a radio on the factory floor to catch the action.