Also, the travel costs to tool up factories for a product can be exorbitant for a small startup, especially when it can sometimes mean that a company has to have a presence in the factory for up to several months to assure quality.
It was reported that factory management and Apple, despite design defects, raised strict quality demands on workers, including indentations standards of 0.02mm and demands related to scratches on frames and back covers.
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Rather, the company believes that mass producing its houses actually enhances quality by ensuring that every detail will be attended to with factory precision.
While the auto factory was paid by its dealers with constantly depreciating rubles or even worse quality IOUs, Berezovsky received dollars for the cars he sold.
"I went to Beijing and spent a week there, meeting with factory representatives to try and develop this fur into the level that was needed and the quality that was needed, " Dickerson said.
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After closing its historic Dagenham factory in England and revamping its continental plants to make them flexible, efficient and capable of high quality, it is turning to the overpriced brands it bought in Europe: Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo and Aston Martin.
With few exceptions, most cars and trucks coming out of the factory these days are well-built and thoughtfully designed, earning high marks from consumers for their initial quality.
When managers managed with a spreadsheet rather than real-world knowledge about what was actually going on in the factory and what were its possibilities, they overlooked hidden costs of the erosion of skills, the loss of quality and constraints on innovation.
When managers manage with a spreadsheet rather than real-world knowledge about what is actually going on in the factory and what were its possibilities, they overlook hidden costs of the erosion of skills, the loss of quality and constraints on innovation.
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However, if your vehicle doesn't have a factory-fitted USB port, connecting your MP3 player can often result in a maze of wires, inferior sound quality, and no remote control function.
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