We have to balance cost of shipping final products with the cost of shipping components vs labor cost s vs quality vs many other factors.
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The other 96.4 percent of that total is the cost of components produced (and the labor and overhead employed to produce those components) in Japan, Germany, South Korea, the United States, and several other countries.
One of the major reasons behind the telecom players reluctance to increase capacity is the high cost of optical components.
Beyond more-efficient solar cells, they're working to slash the cost of components elsewhere in the solar-module system.
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One single QBotix robot can manage 300 kilowatts worth of panels, reducing components, maintenance and cost but it also gives the solar farms another benefit, reduces the cost of construction.
The restriction drove up the cost of aluminum car components by forcing car makers to implement expensive clean-up systems.
Meanwhile, American components and satellites are suffering because of the cost and delays in doing business with the firms that make them.
The paper industry argues that recycling paper and managed tree growth make using paper cheaper and easier on the environment than the cost of recycling computer components.
Unadvertised fact: The expensive car will share a chassis and many of its high-cost components with next year's Malibu--and also with the forthcoming Pontiac Grand Am, a new Saturn model and likely a Buick.
There has been a decent amount of speculation regarding an iPhone 5S (same form factor as the 5 but with a bump up of internal components), a low cost iPhone and a large screen iPhone.
Meanwhile, chipmakers now can integrate all the old analog components of a radio with silicon, obliterating their cost and size.
Workers in Gorseinon were also hit by the closure of the Valeo car components factory in 2001 which cost 330 jobs.
As a result, last week's amendment will substantially reduce the cost of aluminum-based car components, which will likely accelerate the industry's plans to replace vast amounts of steel currently used in cars with aluminum.
And when sterling falls, as it has done, the cost of raw materials and overseas-manufactured components rises.
Under his plan, Cain explains, corporations will be able to deduct the cost of U.S.-manufactured components.
They then analyze how the remaining major cost components, switching and transmission for both types of networks and interconnecting with the switched circuit network for the IP-based networks, change with the change in technology.
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The quantities of rare earths used in technology components are so tiny that higher prices are invisible in the cost to consumers.
NIS, which aims to foster debate on nuclear disarmament, has criticised the cost of the facility that will be used to handle and store nuclear weapons components.
She said one of the key benefits of RPi was the ease with which components could be added to the board, which, combined with its cost, made it a great entry point to introduce children to electronics.
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