The savings are arrestingly simple: Redesigning a standard pumping loop in one factory saved 92% of the pumping power--with lower construction cost and better performance.
He found a new job in a specialty food store, but it paid much less than his old one in a plastics factory.
By contrast, Apple owns just one factory, in Cork, Ireland, relying on contract manufacturers to do the rest of its work.
One suspected case in a factory could disrupt operations for days.
They offered many models and you could not tell the difference between one that came from the factory and one that was produced in a back room somewhere in Turkey, so I asked just how this was possible.
Its factory in Hull, one of five in Britain, has been able to recruit, in part because of lay-offs at a BAE Systems site nearby.
It already has one factory each located in Manesar and Gurgaon in the north Indian state of Haryana, which can together produce 1.4 million vehicles a year.
Made largely outside Japan (this one was put together in a factory in Malaysia) they are mechanical watchmaking in, in some respects, its purest form.
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The last one to be made in a factory in Britain rolled off a production line in Wrexham - 183 years after a machine was patented as the first typewriter.
In 1990 one of his competitors, Agrolinz, wanted to sell its factory in St.
More than 10, 000 people work in the huge factory complex owned by one of the country's largest exporters, the Ha-Meem Group.
As one factory boss said to me last month, wages for factory workers in China are now five times higher than in Vietnam, so he's moved all his labour-intensive work out of China.
Pundits predict more unrest in towns, of which there are many in Russia, that rely entirely on one ailing factory or industry.
In February, the regulator halted drug applications from one factory alleging that the company had falsified data and test results.
Worldwide, Dell has five control centers to answer distress signals, including one in Xiamen where Dell built its first Chinese factory in 1998.
Last year, Peugeot announced a programme to cut its costs by 1bn euros in response to falling sales, including the closure of one factory.
The factories, which also supplied clothes to other European retailers, had been audited by Mango executives in October to determine safety standards and work conditions, one factory executive said.
Chrysler's plan is to replace its antiquated Wrangler factory in Toledo with four separate plants, each one dedicated to a specific manufacturing process and connected to the others by conveyor belts.
The planned factory is just one of 14 Chrysler assembly plants in North America, so the results of the experiment--good or bad--aren't likely to significantly affect company profits.
There are vivid, energetic sketches of life on the factory floor, including a gruesomely exact scene in which one of the workers loses three fingers from his left hand.
When Wessely started the business with one stitch-bonding machine in the shell of an old toweling factory in 1999, he found pretty good demand for "multiaxial reinforcements"--they're strong, stiff lightweight cloths used in boat hulls and construction materials.
One cold night in 1957, walking home from his salt-making factory in Osaka, in Japan, Mr Ando saw white clouds of steam in the street, and a crowd of people gathering.
Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) can't afford any mistakes as it challenges a work force that had never seen the inside of an auto factory to launch five models in less than a year at one new plant--an unprecedented schedule for any North American automaker.
Level one, in Pentagon parlance, is when the vehicle was armored in the factory.
The survey of manufacturing plants in New York is one of the earliest monthly guideposts to U.S. factory conditions.
Isabel, one of the managers, makes her way around the factory floor in a motorized wheelchair, making sure everything is going all right.
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This follows closely after a factory collapse outside Dhaka last month killed more than 800 people, in one of the country's worst industrial accidents ever.
An employee at one additionally named Guangdong producer, Daojiao Jinying Rice Product Factory, based in the city of Dongguan, said he was unaware of the issue.
Sainsbury's wants to build what would be one of the region's largest stores on an old factory site in Westfield, between Midsomer Norton and Radstock.
He points out that one of the last big industrial employers in the constituency - the Ford Transit van factory - has taken EU grants and moved production to Turkey.
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