But Adit Rathi felt the traditional executive dining room did not fit his vision of a dynamic manufacturing enterprise.

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Politicians argued that Britain should try to wean itself off financial services and rediscover honest manufacturing and small- and medium-sized enterprise.

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The high stakes that define automotive manufacturing have driven these automotive companies to become leaders in enterprise innovation.

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In the early 1990s, manufacturers began to see the value of single enterprise-wide resource planning solutions that integrated manufacturing, logistics, distribution, inventory, shipping and accounting.

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It is an integrated enterprise characterized by substantial inter-company cooperation in research, manufacturing and marketing of products.

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It features an extra-long manufacturing life cycle to support extended deployment schedules and provide a consistent platform across enterprise digital signage networks.

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This will expand Verizon's machine-to-machine and telematics capabilities and accelerate revenue growth across key vertical segments of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, including automotive and transportation, energy, health care and manufacturing.

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The Scottish National Party's economy and enterprise spokesman, Andrew Wilson, said the "gloom has yet to lift from Scotland's manufacturing industry".

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Modern manufacturing has succeeded in delivering levels of quality, safety and sheer variety that would have been inconceivable to the enterprise owner of even 20 years ago.

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