Like Apple, Samsung's scale enables it to pay lower prices for components than competitors.
They are already used in motor vehicles for components that have to withstand critical loads.
Secondly, supply and demand imbalances for components caused dramatic price swings, disrupting business plans for many manufacturers.
In the merchant market for components, the larger players are all traders, of which there are about 10.
They have been embedded in materials like plastics to increase their toughness and provide electrical conductivity for components that are electrostatically painted.
Overseas money is invested overseas in new retail stores, the purchase of raw materials, the buying of manufacturing equipment, pre-paying for components etc.
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The University of Birmingham will partner Rolls Royce to launch a research centre for components like turbine blades and produce the next generation of engineers.
Convinced Nissan was paying more for components than its competitors were, he broke up the company's cozy supplier keiretsu and cut out half of Nissan's 1, 100 vendors.
What the market has seized upon are various rumours about weakening sales - most recently a report that Apple had cut orders for components due to worsening prospects for the iPhone 5.
It sounds like a potentially pricey proposition, but the source also claims that Cook and Co. have a fair asking price for components doled out in bulk, considering the technology behind them.
We can all make up our own minds of course: if Apple has halved orders for components then for demand to have remained static then Apple must have been assuming that demand would double.
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Even the relatively tangible repercussions -- such as the loss of indigenous industrial capability and the attendant, increased reliance on foreign suppliers for components of key weapon systems -- are typically dismissed, or at least subordinated to the perceived greater good of developing globalized relationships with trading partners.
For a company like Apple (AAPL) that relies heavily on Japanese partners for critical components for its iPhone and iPad, the decision to keep its supply chain lean has painful implications when faced with the disruption caused the Japanese disaster.
This downsizing is already sign-posted by U.S. inability to compete in trade, where a single company in China employs a million people produces the vast share of products for Apple and components for Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, Intel and Motorola.
It produces electronic components for automobiles and consumer electronic components as well as moldings.
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That means better times for the components and peripheral makers three months after that.
These graphs reflect changes in air pollution levels over the years for the components that this study tested.
Kamprad responded by turning to Polish producers for inexpensive components that could be assembled at home from flat packs.
For the components makers that can adapt, the gains promise to be enormous.
Since December, rumblings from Asian supply chain sources have indicated that demand for iPhone components is weaker than was expected.
However, the world of electronics, and most certainly the world of prices for electronic components, is not a static one.
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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.
Putting less focus on these items will permit airport screeners to focus on looking for bomb components, which present a greater threat to aircraft.
The resulting airflow is enough to provide cooling for internal components.
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That would be a completely new manufacturing technique for tiny components.
The Thailand floods impacted a number of electronics companies and constrained supply for some components and completed electronic products in C4Q 2011 and into 2012.
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According to an official at Apple, the company depends on Japanese firms for vital components because few suppliers elsewhere can live up to its rigorous standards.
And as the President has said often, the type of demand for these components in manufacturing is only going to increase as we seek solutions to our energy problems.
Covisint started out as an online auction site for auto components, but evolved toward a far more useful business model: providing motorists with secure access to the internet through their car.
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