Bright, ambitious young Americans seldom spend their whole lives making products with ballbearings in them.
The first is cost and the second is making products available to a new class of customers.
Lean manufacturers boost efficiency by making products as and when they are needed.
But making products and services easy for customers to have a great experience should not be limited to technology firms.
"We see another opportunity for a billion-euro improvement... by making products that are more competitive, " Mr van Houten told the BBC.
Kocher states this is necessary for companies making products where security matters and they are willing to expend some extra effort.
Monies now poured into catchy copy, peel-backs and jingles would actually be allocated to making products better and servicing them better.
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As a company, we want to transcend convention and imagination, with the ultimate goal of making products worthy of dreaming about.
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In 2014, there will be a million of them making products for Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Microsoft, and Sony, among other brands.
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We challenge the ordinary by making products that are beautiful and user-friendly.
They want to concentrate on making products, creating services, selling to customers.
But for the moment Bangalore is better at making products for other people than coming up with new ones of its own.
You have to have the Steve Jobses of the world beginning businesses, making products that want to be purchased around the world.
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First and foremost, Japanese industry has a famous concern for customer-centered engineering--for making products that appeal to the needs and comfort of users.
It's pretty clear if you're making products you're making products and if you're processing products like if you're an oil refiner, you're a processor.
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After resolving teething problems and making products that match specifications, innovation inside the factory turns to cutting costs, often in ways that range from unsavoury to dangerous.
Whether the rest of Silicon Valley or the world knows it, AOL is quietly becoming a group of smart, focused individuals who care deeply about design and making products that matter.
I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DD) : This Delaware-based materials giant operates in about 80 countries, making products for a wide array of industries, including agriculture, nutrition, electronics, construction and apparel, to name a few.
Additive manufacturing, often referred to as 3D printing, is a new way of making products and components from a digital model, and will have implications in a wide range of industries including defense, aerospace, automotive, and metals manufacturing.
Let's reward them for investing in new plants and equipment here in the U.S., and training new workers here in the U.S., and keeping the research and development here in the U.S., and creating jobs right here in the U.S., making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA. That's what we're fighting for.
On new products, Mr. Cook, as usual, stressed the company's commitment to making great products but disclosed no new details.
Other cleantech businesses that continue to look like good investments to venture capitalists include those producing products or software related to energy efficiency and those making improvements to existing businesses or products (making a better LED lighting system, for example).
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Making great products is not enough when customers are looking for a great total experience.
The maker movement he aims to support, Muren says, isn't just about making new products available.
He wants employees focused on making great products, not the stock price, they said.
Newell Rubbermaid has switched to making household products that use less resin (see p. 56).
And the cottage industry of app developers who are making these products knows that.
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Because making these products was so labor intensive, they were sold for tremendous prices.
Everything we do at Apple is aimed at making our products the best in the world.
The key to this is simply making these products a part of our everyday life.
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