Meanwhile, makers of generics developed more efficient manufacturing processes and negotiated bulk discounts on raw materials.
Mr Marianna says this is mainly because Germany has a very efficient manufacturing sector.
Efficient manufacturing, affordable cars, highway networks and mass communication and marketing keep the curve going in the 1950s.
Efficient manufacturing, affordable cars, highway networks and mass communication and marketing keep the curve going in the 20th century.
Historically, Nokia has been a highly efficient manufacturing and logistics machine capable of churning out a dozen handsets a second and selling them all over the world.
The Cell processor and its RSX graphics companion are still separate parts, and a similar power supply capacity suggests that neither of the main chips has been built on a more efficient manufacturing process.
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How efficient are the manufacturing processes from material use, energy consumption, emission and waste generation viewpoints?
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As other Asian nations become efficient at mass manufacturing, China must embrace research and high-technology production to transform its economy as South Korea and Japan once did.
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Also, Japanese industrial processes are famously innovative in making specialized manufacturing more efficient.
The Internet and its related technologies have made the process of outsourcing manufacturing so efficient that the effects on American jobs have overwhelmed the jiu-jitsu economic process of turning a negative thrust into a positive outcome.
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While, as we know, a lot of the productivity growth of the 1990s was actually the computer industry itself becoming more efficient at its own manufacturing, the current boom is from people working out what to actually do with the bright shiny boxes.
In Wisconsin, a company called Orion is putting hundreds of people to work manufacturing energy-efficient lights in a once-shuttered plant.
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Manufacturing companies need efficient telecoms, insurance, finance and software services to succeed.
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Not only did that prevent the repeat of a failure, but it sometimes led to valuable insights on, say, how to make a manufacturing process more efficient.
The strategy effectively skips a whole cycle of traditional price drops as manufacturing gets more efficient, but trains a legion of customers to think that such a jump in value is completely normal and sustainable by most of the industry.
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The accessibility to local manufacturers is going to make the manufacturing process much more efficient.
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It will boost manufacturing of energy-efficient products like those made here at Cree.
The good news: There are a growing number of very competent companies manufacturing solar cells for efficient conversion of this sunlight to electricity.
The Italian carmaker, which took control of Chrysler when it exited bankruptcy, recently bumped its stake in Chrysler to 25% by achieving the first of three government-required milestones: manufacturing a fuel-efficient engine in the United States.
But it would be foolish to underestimate the ability of the world's biggest carmaker to put its house in order: it still has the most efficient system for product development and manufacturing, even if it must focus for the moment on quality control.
In the late 1990s, Dell tore through the PC industry with its hyper-efficient, built-to-order manufacturing model.
Nanotech holds the promise of cleaner ecosystems, more efficient energy sources and waste-minimizing manufacturing processes.
Now, these folks are hard at work on a new manufacturing process for ultra-efficient LED lights that will make them more affordable for people all across the country and around the world.
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By the end of the year, Fiat expects to increase its Chrysler holdings to 58.5% by satisfying an Obama administration requirement that it begin U.S. manufacturing of a fuel-efficient Chrysler using Fiat underpinnings.
Moreover, the chipsets were built on a 40nm manufacturing process that made power-efficient designs with LTE difficult.
It also helps Intel push its chips into smaller, battery powered devices and embedded systems, as Intel begins challenging companies manufacturing chips based on power-efficient ARM designs.
"The Indian manufacturing base could get a lot more efficient over time, " Mr. Singhal said.
As China is now exporting inflation, companies will continue to transition more of their manufacturing to the U.S. Furthermore, U.S manufacturing has become much more productive and efficient.
Across our country, scientists and engineers are laying the groundwork for the next big energy breakthrough, farmers across rural America are producing homegrown fuels, students are promoting conservation in their communities, and autoworkers are manufacturing the next generation of fuel-efficient cars.
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