Those are the kinds of things that are going to make sure that we have the high-end manufacturing here in our country.

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Famously, Japan transformed their national brand image from being cheap plastic imports to becoming experts in high-end manufacturing, from (albeit now tarnished) Sony to best-selling Toyota.

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Hana Microelectronics has moved successfully from being a motherboard producer to doing a variety of high-end component manufacturing, from watch movements to electronics for telephones.

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Even as high-end engineering boomed, manufacturing jobs dropped slightly between 2004 and 2010, to 50m.

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In this region, most homes are well above water and many businesses--in everything from agriculture and energy to manufacturing and high-end business services--remain on solid footing.

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It also allows HP to build both high- and low-end print heads with similar designs and the same manufacturing process.

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For a start, the little manufacturing India has tends to be quite high-end.

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But when it comes to high-end, high-skilled jobs, those are the kind of manufacturing jobs we have to go after.

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Several industry segments make use of high-end computing including life sciences, energy, scientific research, defense, manufacturing and finance.

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The various pieces would then be lined up and laminated together to form a working print head, a process which required HP to have two different manufacturing lines and product designs for low-end and high-end print heads.

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