Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America also acts as the North American operating company of Panasonic's Automotive Systems Company, which coordinates global automotive industry systems and components operations.

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The plant will also be used to supply transmissions and other components to its Brazilian operations.

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Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions.

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And Dell strictly limits the number of components in its computers as a way of controlling its customized assembly operations.

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Third, the components of the costs that we exclude in our calculation of non-GAAP operating income may differ from the components that our peer companies exclude when they report their results of operations.

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Yet the employees who carry out the operations that make up much of a supply chain's individual components, such as driving trucks, overseeing warehouses or operating fork-lifts, are not always treated as though their jobs are important.

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Group tooling operations will continue and will be expanded to include development of tooling for other components e.g. doors, boots and decklids.

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Another approach is to farm some operations out to other firms, as, for example, car makers have done with their components supplies.

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