In the early 1990s, manufacturers began to see the value of single enterprise-wide resource planning solutions that integrated manufacturing, logistics, distribution, inventory, shipping and accounting.
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It's a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form whose modern iterations are better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s.
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Getting new materials integrated into manufacturing processes is never easy and is not going to happen overnight.
We are a vertically integrated company, from manufacturing to retailing to logistics.
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The gains are possible because Esquel owns a vertically integrated supply chain and manufacturing process which extends from cotton farming, spinning, knitting, weaving, and apparel production, and then all the way to retailing.
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Right now the tool is geared toward assessing the sustainability of existing products, but plans are in the works to roll out a tool that could be integrated into design and manufacturing processes early on to help gauge the potential impacts of various decisions and enable companies to design more sustainable products.
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Gas accounts for 26% of Wheeling-Pittsburgh's energy usage and perhaps 15% of the manufacturing cost in its integrated steel mills.
This newfangled approach to insulation, dubbed airgaps, creates vacuums that enable the substantial boost in speed, and the self assembling process is reportedly "already integrated" into IBM's manufacturing line in New York.
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This glass specialist had no research, manufacturing, or marketing expertise in integrated circuits, and so, no base for competing with those who did.
The investment will allow the base to make the latest system-on-chip designs in which various technologies are integrated onto the same circuit, helping minimise manufacturing costs.
This is not only because of the 28nm manufacturing process but also the availability of an integrated radio on the chipset.
The manufacturing industry, by contrast, wanted software that integrated purchasing, inventory, production and sales.
It is an integrated enterprise characterized by substantial inter-company cooperation in research, manufacturing and marketing of products.
Unlike Europe and America, where most electronics firms have split the design and manufacturing sides of their businesses and narrowed their focus, Japan still trudges on with five vertically integrated electronics giants.
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