The transparency gives Honda a tactical benefit: It knows ahead of time how much a tool costs Northwest to build and thus whether suppliers are crying wolf about their tooling costs.
Applied intends to trim the industry's costs in four ways: boost solar factory throughput, improve the productivity of every tool, cut materials costs by using photovoltaic materials more sparingly and raise solar cell efficiencies.
The Affordable Care Act was sold as a tool to lower health costs.
Also, the travel costs to tool up factories for a product can be exorbitant for a small startup, especially when it can sometimes mean that a company has to have a presence in the factory for up to several months to assure quality.
By focusing on health-contingent wellness programs as a proven tool for improving employee health and reducing costs, the new HHS rules offer employers a viable path to a healthier workforce and a healthier bottom line.
And these four finalists have some terrific ideas: putting books that have been ordered every year online instead of continuing to incur the shipping costs, to having a tool library over at NASA so that instead of buying very specialized tools over and over again for different projects, we actually keep an inventory of those tools.
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So the mobile phone could be a useful tool to combat both chronic disease and runaway medical costs.
Mr. Schneider says students should compare net college costs after projected aid. (They can approximate net costs using the government's College Navigator tool) The riskiest investment is a high-cost liberal-arts college that lacks a strong brand name and doesn't offer much aid, says Mr. Schneider.
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Understand it, and you'll have discovered another powerful tool for attracting new customers, building loyalty among existing customers, cutting costs and increasing satisfaction.
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Obama said Tuesday that having a public health insurance plan is "an important tool to discipline insurance companies" and will help control spiraling health care costs.
Dr. Tuckson said that any brand of monitor people choose can be an important tool to spur them to stay healthy and, ultimately, bring down costs for insurers and patients.
So much skill, in fact, that Keane started patenting those innovations--like how to aggregate thousands of orders into batches to trim costs, or how to make his Web site's design tool (which lets customers whip up their own brochures and business cards) communicate seamlessly with Web browsers.
For items where construction costs vary by region--say, a gravel driveway--the Web tool gives you tips on how to look up a realistic cost.
The lathe is a tool for making tools--it makes manual crafting tasks easier, allowing for increased production and lower costs.
The Bank has resisted calls to raise interest rates - seen as the most effective policy tool in combating inflation - on the basis that temporary, external factors, such as rising oil and food costs, are driving price rises.
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