21.   As local technology companies have grown, the need for good workers has ballooned, both on the factory floor and at the drawing board.

22.   At a manufacturer perceived as having out-of-touch factory bureaucracies, Ms. Trudell has worked her way up through engineering jobs on factory floors.

23.   At GE, he was known as an operations whiz who was just as comfortable on the factory floor as he was in the boardroom.

24.   At the White House event, the administration brought forward a witness from the factory floor to support its case.

25.   Before the turn of the century, America went through a similar revolution when automation came to the factory floor, displacing workers.

26.   Boeing officials disputed factory floor rumors that the company is planning mandatory overtime.

27.   Boxes of white military dress gloves, waiting to be sewn together, were scattered about the factory floor.

28.   A second effort, lean manufacturing, is supposed to make common-sense changes on the factory floor.

29.   Absent a few days earlier when a television team shot the factory floor, Ms. Dillard was reluctant to settle for a low-tech, pencil-toting scribe.

30.   But all is not well on the factory floor.