BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Job Shop
- a manufacturing facility designed to work on a job production basis, producing small quantities of what are often specialized or expensive items. A job shop can be a special facility within a factory, or a whole company can be run as a job shop. Job shops often have the ability to produce a wide variety of products.
Additional Resources
- TheStandard.com Expands On-Line 'Job Shop'; Extensive, Interactive Information and Services Now Available for Job Seekers and Employers
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 14, 2000 TheStandard.com, the Web site of Standard Media International ("The Standard"), today launched its newly expanded and more interactive Job Shop. Job Shop, which offers services and information for both job seekers and employers alike, will integrate commerce and editorial and...
- Research articles 2000-09-14
- EDM allows shop to aim at high-end rifle market: it's not every day that you run into the combination of an EDM job shop and a rifle manufacturer, but if you travel to Redlands, CA, that's exactly what you'll find at Affordable EDM
- Founder Keary Ritchie and his wife Peggy started the Southern California job shop in 1992. Five years later, they began producing large-caliber, high-end rifles under the banner of EDMARMS and they haven't slowed down since. Both businesses have become very successful. Combined sales in 2001 were $1.2 million. The expectation...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- Willoughby job shop popular with industry-minded Chinese. (Sheet Metal Products Co.)
- Willoughby job shop popular with industry-minded Chinese The road to the industrialization of the People's Republic of China passed through Sheet Metal Products Co., a metalworking job shop in Willoughby, again last week. For the Chinese, it's fast becoming a well-traveled road....
- Research articles 1987-11-09
- CNCs and software for job shop, medical and aerospace markets—Siemens, Booth 2132
- For machine manufacturers and end users, the company offers various CNC motor and drive technology and manufacturing software geared toward the job shop, medical and aerospace markets. Developed for job shops, the 802D CNC combines the NC, PLC and the human machine interface HMI in a single unit. Useful for...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Job shop opens to help axed workers; DATABASE OF 300,000 NATIONAL VACANCIES SET UP ON THE DOORSTEP
- AN on-the-doorstep job shop to help hundreds of workers from a Nuneaton firm opens its doors for the first time on Monday. The job-hunting service aims to prevent workers from the Lear Corporation having to travel to distant advice centres in the search of work. It...
- Research articles 1999-05-08
- Short bar loader helps job shop meet tolerance specs and throughput goals
- Pushing the limits of conventional machining technology is the norm at Instrument Development Corporation (Mukwonago, Wisconsin). IDC is a 50-person job shop that specializes in the production of close tolerance automotive parts and aerospace components, such as guidance and navigation system components with complex geometries and precision control valves....
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- Bring computers into the small job shop, part 1
- Bringing Computers Into The Small Job Shop, Part I Contract shops, usually small businesses with a few dozen employees, have been slow to adopt the idea of computer-controlled equipment. At least, they have been slower to do so than the manufacturing giants in American industry. Managers of...
- Research articles 1989-07-01
- Job shop outreach
- Milacron Inc. Cincinnati has cooked up a way to reach hops too small for its salesmen to call on. Most shops with 50 or fewer employees buy products through distributors or industrial product catalogs. Now customers for metalworking fluids and tools have another option: do it on the Internet. Milacron's...
- Research articles 1999-05-01
- Machine control helps job shop score high production marks: high-level CNC offers a wide range of specialized functions for milling, drilling, turning, grinding and materials handling.(CONTROLS FEATURE)
- Through its use of Index multi-spindle machining centers, one Florida job shop is continuing to score high marks with precision hydraulics, aerospace and defense sector customers. Model Screw Products in Clearwater is a 78-person, 42,000 sq. ft. facility, currently producing various hydraulic components for major OEMs...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Waterjet payoff is cut in half for New York job shop
- Lighting the way from Tiffany lamp reproductions to aerospace parts, North Eastern Lamps & Bronze has skillfully combined art and technology to expand their business into a thriving job shop. This family-owned company, located in Amsterdam, New York, began in the early 50s as home improvement. Owners Andre and Gerard...
- Research articles 1994-03-01
- Global Employment Services Leader Adecco Introduces Innovative Job Search Kiosks to Washington State
- SEATTLE--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 12, 1998-- Adecco "Job Shop" at Northgate Mall is First of Several High Tech Job Kiosks to Connect People with Job ...
- Research articles 1998-08-12
- Global Employment Services Leader Adecco Introduces Innovative Job Search Kiosks to Ohio
- COLUMBUS, Ohio--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 27, 1998-- Adecco "Job Shop" at the Northland Mall is One of Several High Tech Job Kiosks Connecting People with Job Opportunities in the Ohio Market This June, the Swiss-based global...
- Research articles 1998-08-27
- Global Employment Services Leader Adecco Introduces Innovative Job Search Kiosks to Washington State
- SEATTLE--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 12, 1998-- Adecco "Job Shop" at Northgate Mall is First of Several High Tech Job Kiosks to Connect People with Job Opportunities in the Washington Market This June, the Swiss-based global employment services leader, Adecco, announced plans for the national roll-out of Job Shop, a first-of-of-its-kind interactive job...
- Research articles 1998-08-12
- Global Employment Services Leader Adecco Introduces Innovative Job Search Kiosks to Ohio
- COLUMBUS, Ohio--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 27, 1998-- Adecco "Job Shop" at the Northland Mall is One of Several High Tech Job Kiosks Connecting People with Job Opportunities in the Ohio Market This June, the Swiss-based global employment services leader, Adecco, announced plans for the national roll-out of Job Shop, a first-of-of-its-kind interactive...
- Research articles 1998-08-27
- Global Employment Services Leader Adecco Introduces Innovative Job Search Kiosks to North Carolina
- CHARLOTTE, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 5, 1998-- Adecco "Job Shop" at the Central Piedmont Community College is a High Tech Job Kiosk Connecting People with Job Opportunities in the North Carolina Market This June, the Swiss-based global leader in employment services, Adecco (Nasdaq:ADECY), announced plans for the national...
- Research articles 1998-11-05
- Owner of The Frederick News-Post sells print-shop operations
- The owner of The Frederick News-Post says it has sold a separate print-shop operation to a Pennsylvania company. Randall Family LLC says the business, called the Job Shop, has been purchased by Caskey Printing of York, Pa., for an undisclosed price. Company officials say five of the six Job Shop...
- Research articles 2008-01-28
- Malcolm X College Partners With Global Employment Services Leader Adecco to Bring Innovative Job Search Kiosks to Chicago Area Campus
- CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 25, 1999-- Adecco's 'Job Shop' Kiosks To Connect Malcolm X College Students With Job Opportunities in the Chicago Market Last June, the Swiss-based global leader in employment services, Adecco (Nasdaq:ADECY), announced plans for their U.S. roll-out of Job Shop, a first-of-its-kind interactive job search kiosk...
- Research articles 1999-02-25
- Job estimating. (Books, Videos, Etc.).
- "Make Money on Every Job with the P.H. System for Contractors and Job-Shop Owners," by Leo T. Goss, CPA. For construction contractors ... "Make Money on Every Job with the P.H. System for Contractors and Job-Shop Owners," by Leo T. Goss, CPA. For construction...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Rolling Horizon Scheduling In Large Job Shops
- The white paper asserts that the Virtual Factory is a job shop scheduling tool that was developed at NC State. It has been shown to provide nearoptimal solutions to industrial-sized problems in seconds through comparison to a computed lower bound. It is an iterative simulation-based procedure, whose objective is minimizing...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Mall Kiosks Put Job Opportunities Only A Touch Away.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 23 -- Angelo Tolentino needed to pick up a bridesmaid dress for his wife and a job for himself. So he headed to the mall -- for both. Tolentino picked up a dress at a...
- Research articles 1999-05-24
