To take advantage of our complex manufacturing base and to hasten the shift away from Asia, speed to market is critical.
We have complex technologies and manufacturing procedures, multi-stream product discovery and development processes, intricate partnerships with suppliers and customers.
All new aircraft face delays as they become technically more complex and as manufacturing methods change in search of greater efficiency.
"GEMA went way too far, " complains Jerry Sullivan, president of Local 600, which represents 8, 000 workers at Ford's historic Rouge manufacturing complex.
So Ford set out to make his fledgling car company self-sufficient, building the massive River Rouge manufacturing complex just south of Detroit.
In signing the deal, the UAW agreed to a highly unusual two-tier wage system, meaning certain workers in the same manufacturing complex will get paid less than their peers.
The geography of manufacturing is complex.
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The lightest ultrastrong automotive materials, carbon-fiber composites, looked too costly for cars until a Rocky Mountain Institute spinoff commercialized an automated manufacturing process that makes complex composite parts in less than a minute.
Fishman focuses on another, equally surprising, insourcing story: over the past year, General Electric has revived its principal U.S. appliance manufacturing facility, a huge complex in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Starck's influence is evident from the complex design concept to the hands-on manufacturing process.
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This conversion process creates a complex system of multiple components held to tight tolerances making manufacturing more challenging.
The analysis predicts lower-tech manufacturing like textiles and apparel will stay overseas, while more complex products, like electronics and automobiles, might be more likely to be made in the United States.
Then again, even with reams of data (manufacturing orders, consumer spending, unemployment rates, stock prices) and complex computer models at their disposal, richly paid soothsayers prove notoriously bad at predicting the future.
The organizational unit through which these results are to be achieved at Haier is the ZZJYT: small, autonomous units of ten to twenty people, each with direct responsibility for a geographical area, a product, or a manufacturing process and seen as an entrepreneurial platform in an otherwise large, complex organization.
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We imagine Steve Jobs designing, engineering, optimizing, manufacturing, delivering, marketing and selling the iPhone instead of seeing the vast and complex apparatus of Apple production.
Currently, the manufacturing base is becoming high-tech and includes automobiles, iPhones, and a range of very complex products.
Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.
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