Most of the jobs these "bankers" do are far from the production lines of the companies that pay them.
The U.S. market certainly has been growing quickly, but so has the number of production lines and factories around the world.
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Sales grew 18 percent from the year before, but the startup of production lines for multiple new products like the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini held back profits.
It cuts costs by getting rid of production lines.
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The company built three of five planned production lines, but underestimated labor costs apparently unaware of a requirement that it pay prevailing wages and no longer has enough grant money to complete production.
Action 2000, a body set up by the government to co-ordinate its campaign to beat the bug, says that in the past year about 15% of the microchip-controlled production lines in factories have failed tests of whether they can cope with dates beyond 1999.
The San Jose company announced Tuesday it will suspend production at six of the 12 solar cell production lines and cut solar panel production by 20% in the Philippines.
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That is why the company is moving to automate more of its production lines, he said.
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It also has launched a new conventional submarine with the possibility of two production lines.
It now has taken on more urgency, especially since gm and Ford had to temporarily shut down some production lines because of parts shortages after Sept. 11.
Phantom Apparels and Phantom Tac, with a total of 10 production lines between them with 60 seamstresses on each line, were rushing to complete the order, the executives said.
Of course, distilleries have increased production, and even introduced new lines of rye.
The reorganisation of production along global lines is not simply the technological or managerial innovation you portray.
They panicked at year-end 2008, closing down assembly lines and terminating tens of thousands of production workers of long seniority.
One of the newest production lines makes release papers, used to hold sticky labels until they go on retail products.
Ultimately, it wasn't Protestant conscience that eradicated slavery, but the ascendance of mass-production lines and innovations such as the steam engine.
The company is seeking to use only 50 percent of the factory production lines for six months, said company spokesman Alan Bernheimer.
Given these priorities, Toshiba has assigned production of different lines to selected countries: refrigerators and other white goods in Thailand, televisions and other brown goods in Singapore, and information equipment in the Philippines.
More unusual is what's on the flip side: not a translation but gobs of tiny details on his rubber glove maker's factories, their locations, production lines and capacity, as well as number of employees, export markets and range of products and certifications.
More unusual is what's on the flip side: not a translation but gobs of tiny details about the Malaysian rubber glove maker's factories, their locations, production lines and capacity, as well as number of employees, export markets and range of products.
By 2009, there should be 3, 000 workers manning the lines and production should reach full capacity of 300, 000 cars.
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Big, sophisticated robot systems used on car-production lines can cost millions of dollars.
There were 3000 people in the building at the time, many of them working on production lines making cheap clothes for British high street shops.
Then SunPower, the Silicon Valley solar panel manufacturer and power plant developer, said it would temporarily shut down half of its 12 photovoltaic production lines in the Philippines and lay off 900 workers.
Selling the production lines to China will, no doubt, quickly result in mass production of less luxurious versions and their sale throughout the world to the most repugnant and repressive regimes, rogue militias, terrorist entities and governments hostile to U.S. interests.
New orders would lead to updated production lines and tools, much of it imported.
Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people) said today it will idle three auto-production plants because of its Firestone tire recall, taking 6, 000 workers off the production lines.
Carmakers were beginning to worry about interrupted supplies of electrical components from Asia slowing production lines.
Boeing will take several months to catch up with work delayed last October when production lines had to be halted because of a shortage of parts.
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