Both your assembly and distribution costs will increase, and this may affect the profitability of your company.
The upside, though, is tantalizing: If it works as it should, modular assembly, VW says, will save at least 20% a year in car costs and shorten assembly times by 30%.
Henry Ford is watching the way his cars are made and comes up with an idea to streamline manufacturing and cut costs: the assembly line.
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The minister confirmed that they have protected the match funding of the European fisheries fund and that costs for the assembly staff working to support the industry do not come out of her budget.
Indeed, at various stages, increases in costs were brought to the assembly's attention and were accepted.
They may not look inspiring, but deep in the recesses of their brains they have these little ideas--a fast-food restaurant concept no one has ever anticipated, an assembly-line innovation that can lower production costs by 50%, a retirement-plan wrinkle to save everyone's 401(k)--and, someday, assuming they can find their toothbrushes amid the stash of moisturizing-cream bottles in their travel bags, they are going to realize their dreams.
The First Minister said the Assembly Government is supporting 85 per cent of the costs.
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If they can sell enough cars and keep the assembly lines running well, they can justify those costs.
He also criticised the way the assembly had compared the original estimates with the actual costs - which could only have been known much later.
Rachel Banner from True Wales, the main "vote no" campaign group in last year's referendum on assembly powers, said she was worried about the costs.
It added that those figures were broadly in line with the costs, per voter, of the Welsh Assembly and AV referendums in 2011.
The council said the cost of energy and food, rising waste management costs, a lower-than-inflation settlement from the assembly government and other "budgetary pressures" left it with no choice.
This could mean the Welsh Assembly is given more powers to levy some taxes, such as rubbish dumping costs, air passenger duty on flights and stamp duty when buying homes, although it would not be limited to those taxes.
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