The computer models also guide Ford in keeping incentives at a level at which sales won't outstrip factory capacity.
The company currently has produced 100 tons of material so far and has enough factory capacity to produce 7, 000 tons of liquid a year.
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All three companies are working hard to break that suicidal pattern by slashing factory capacity, buying out tens of thousands of workers and readjusting their pricing strategies.
European automakers have more than a dozen plants worth of excess factory capacity, with new plants still under construction in Central Europe and more being built in Russia.
In an interview with The Associated Press last month, Lentz said Toyota studies sales trends for each particular model series and will add North American factory capacity when necessary.
Marvell also said that Intel might have done better if cell phones had been a higher priority, saying the business had been hamstrung by Intel because it was not given enough factory capacity.
The German factory has the capacity to produce 500 megawatts of solar panels per year.
Portmeirion said production in 2011 was also up by 18% on the previous year, although its Stoke factory was now near capacity.
It is building a new factory in America with the capacity to turn out 250, 000 cars a year and is aiming to triple its market share from 2% to 6% by 2018, with sales of 800, 000.
The factory was still at less than capacity, with ample room for a new product line.
Toyota has added capacity at its British factory, while Nissan's British production may rise to 400, 000 cars next year from 315, 000.
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MCB's factory is to operate at its full capacity of 60, 000 cars a year, it has to steal a lot of sales from other brands.
However, we expect that as the industry revives and demand picks up, TI could leverage this additional capacity and consequently increase its factory utilization rates which, in turn, will improve the gross margins.
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In a way, that government funding was more trouble than it was worth for A123, because it was used to build a spanking-new factory in Livonia, Michigan that added huge capacity before the automakers were ready to absorb it.
Production capacity numbers usually describe to what the factory equipment could produce if they operate around the clock, but they almost never do that because they get taken offline for maintenance and other reasons.
Although cuts at GM and Chrysler have removed some (though not enough) excess capacity in America, not a single car factory in Europe has closed so far.
GM, which has missed its profit targets in Europe, has been quietly refurbishing its old factory at Russelsheim in Germany, shedding surplus labour and capacity along the way.
Insurance, unlike factory-based industries, faces no short-term capacity constraints.
Cat is adding capacity to its tractor plant and building a combine factory.
This new 5 billion yuan factory, due to open in 2011, has a projected capacity of 400, 000 cars a year.
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The factory will be able to produce 3 million units a month at capacity.
Boeing indicated that its South Carolina factory would employ non-union workers and would have a production capacity of three 787 Dreamliners a month, compared with seven a month at the Everett, Washington plant.
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The Sakai factory, which opened in 2009, has been running at half its capacity.
Increased capacity combined with a slowdown in industry demand led to lower factory utilization and declining profit margins.
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The factory will start operations by the middle of next year with an initial annual capacity of 150, 000 engines, which will be doubled in 2014.
Tata Motors is building a factory to produce the Nano in the state of Gujarat that will have a capacity to produce 250, 000 cars annually, but it likely won't come online until 2010.
Every change on the factory floor that allows workers to adapt to sudden shifts in demand reduces the excess capacity of people and plant space Dell must maintain to get products out on time.
Cat is adding capacity to its DeKalb, Ill. tractor plant and is building a combine factory in Omaha.
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