申武投资初期安装了一个热交换器，将进入炉内的空气预热，降低了客户的燃料成本。
Shenwu puts up the initial investment to install a heat exchanger that preheats the air going into the furnace, slashing the client's fuel costs.
艾伯纳西对汽车制造商的研究表明，一个行业很容易成为自己在削减成本技术上投资的俘虏，从而降低了开发新产品的能力。
As Abernathy's study of automobile manufacturers has shown, an industry can easily become prisoner of its own investments in cost-cutting techniques, reducing its ability to develop new products.
如果它同样适用于例如投资银行或法律咨询等服务行业，那么客户显然没有因为降低的成本而得到任何优惠。
And if it is true in service industries such as investment banking or legal advice, the lower costs are clearly not passed on to customers.
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