The first comprises five Midwestern states plus nearby Pennsylvania with relatively large manufacturing bases.
Nonetheless, data from Mr Engler's outfit show that American manufacturers are the least geared towards exports of the 15 large manufacturing economies.
Other visits to Baosteel and Volkswagen gave most of these students their first exposure to what a large manufacturing plant looks like.
But unrelated to the energy jobs themselves is the more important point of having reliable, affordable energy in a region, which is necessary to attract large manufacturing or production growth.
With the real possibility that the policy-driven demand for wind turbines would dry up in any given year, companies were understandably wary of investing in large manufacturing facilities in the United States.
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Nor is it the willingness to go onto part-time working to preserve jobs in the downturn, the Protestant work ethic, the large manufacturing sector or any of the other things that people are musing about.
Large scale manufacturing, union power, a strong middle class and the music that became the soundtrack for American life all can claim roots in Motown.
On a Monday morning, not long ago, I was sitting across a conference table from Audrey, the VP of Human Resources for a large global manufacturing company.
The company has set up large scale manufacturing operations for diapers in countries like China and is scaling up its sales channels in other South Asian regions.
Fatal fires are common in Bangladesh's large garment manufacturing sector.
However, aluminum is compatible with current large-volume manufacturing facilities and body shops that would be expensive to overhaul.
And they would benefit from a splurge of capital that would allow large-scale manufacturing and thus lower costs.
Recently, the company also announced the opening of a large wheel loader manufacturing facility in Tongzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Before the end of the year, China's government will likely finalize regulations needed to begin large scale EV manufacturing.
Under Jabari, the Qassam Brigades focused primarily on manufacturing large numbers of rockets which were fired at targets in southern Israel.
The Pentagon, which wanted to keep those wars limited and short, avoided planning for large-scale manufacturing, even after its necessity became obvious.
Sure, there are people who work in manufacturing but by and large, the heyday of the manufacturing industry here in the U.S. is gone.
He points to maintenance applications, medical solutions--especially used during surgery or patient rounds--and large-scale manufacturing applications as areas that can produce the sort of easily measurable returns that attract corporate interest.
"Our coating method is simple, and it can be applied in the future in large-area manufacturing processes, " said Rui Zhu, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA Engineering and the paper's lead author.
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Another example: A123 Systems, a Massachusetts company that produces lithium-ion batteries, has created a large design and manufacturing center in Michigan to be near their automotive customers for electric and hybrid vehicles.
The virus used in vaccines is not the actual virus that infects people, but rather a hybrid that's been genetically modified to make it safer, and to give it the ability to multiply more quickly -- a crucial factor when it comes to manufacturing large quantities.
That is what large, sophisticated, manufacturing intensive companies like Foxconn are already doing.
Taking this dis-integration a step further, many companies that sell electronic appliances are outsourcing large chunks of their manufacturing.
The demise of domestic manufacturing looms large in the American consciousness, with lost jobs and emptying Rust Belt towns a frequent political sawhorse.
The conventional wisdom is that a large-scale shift from manufacturing jobs to service industry jobs is inevitable.
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By having a tightly connected system of research, service providers, small and large companies and workforce, manufacturing innovation can be core to a successful scale-up of products within cluster companies.
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The manufacturing sector faces a relatively large regulatory burden when compared to other sectors of the economy, and thus the need to streamline burden on the manufacturing sector is essential.
But the emergence of China as a powerhouse producing a variety of manufacturing goods at very cheap prices thanks to the large scale and skilful exploitation of the supply chain means that not all manufacturing jobs will be transferred from China to Africa.
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