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Dallas Business Journal
The University of Texas at Arlington and the Arlington Chamber of Commerce are helping three area businesses improve their technology operations with a $250,000 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission.
The grant was awarded to the chamber’s Center for a Competitive Workforce, which is overseeing the work. The three beneficiaries of the project are the General Motors assembly plant in Arlington, American Airlines and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
American is getting a new system for tracking same-day, high-priority shipments, such as human organs or animals.
The airport is receiving a “laser range finder” method for keeping its personnel from accidentally driving onto taxiways, active runways or emergency roads. And at GM, university researchers are devising technology that improves the way the plant lines up vehicles for painting, a seemingly mundane issue that researchers say could save the company $500,000 at each assembly facility.
— Jeff Bounds
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