That explains why companies worldwide will be watching Toyota's experiment with a new manufacturing approach in emerging markets.
The additive approach to manufacturing has several big advantages over the conventional one.
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Despite its strengths hefty investment in research, a rigorous approach to manufacturing and good relations with its local community Kodak had become a complacent monopolist.
The look of that vehicle isn't the only cool thing about it: it's also the product of a new approach to manufacturing, which has the potential to reduce the overall process by a factor a five.
When first developed in Japan in the 1970s, the idea of just-in-time (JIT) marked a radical new approach to the manufacturing process.
Enter Globalfoundries, the new kid on the block, which takes a more consultative approach called Collaborative Device Manufacturing (CDM).
Two of the most closely watched projects going up almost side by side in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul are taking modular manufacturing further still by applying the approach to cars.
If it were possible to move the components around using optical tweezers, and put them directly on to a base, that would open up a completely different approach to the problem and might, ultimately, result in a new manufacturing technology.
Through an engineering-driven approach to biology, Living Foundries aims to create a rapid, reliable manufacturing capability where multiple cellular functions can be fabricated, mixed and matched on demand and the whole system controlled by integrated circuitry, opening up the full space of biologically produced materials and systems.
By following this approach, if an item looks like a winner, Zara can quickly ramp up manufacturing and get items to their stores in a matter of days.
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In this connection, high priority must be given to improving the United States' ability to attack and destroy deeply buried assets -- one approach taken by the North Koreans to conceal and harden some of their nuclear weapons-related manufacturing sites.
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