Among those projects are the supply of manufacturing components, energy-related construction and development work and ship repair.
Ditto with many manufacturing components, where price is only one factor, alongside quality and reliability, that drives purchasing decisions.
The company is planning to add 140 new jobs at Crosspointe and more than 100 additional jobs in Indiana manufacturing components for commercial aircraft engines.
In manufacturing, components have been engineered and standardized to make the entire process of sourcing matured and efficient.
We have all kinds of things in so many of our states -- manufacturing wind turbine components and solar panel components -- but we're the only major industrial country in the world without a manufacturing policy.
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That would be a completely new manufacturing technique for tiny components.
Having said that, there are some electronics manufacturing companies, the components makers, which are not cheap but have relatively reasonable valuations even in this phase of the rally.
And as the President has said often, the type of demand for these components in manufacturing is only going to increase as we seek solutions to our energy problems.
At the show there are companies that build manufacturing equipment for hard disk components and semiconductors although each industry also has its unique equipment, materials and processes.
And that plant will be one of 30 new plants to go fully operational over the next six years manufacturing electric vehicle batteries and components right here in the United States of America.
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There is a kind of manufacturing, often with high components of craft work, which needs to be in urban areas because it is networked, depends on contracting and subcontracting arrangements, and often needs direct contact with customers.
"We obviously were wary, because they were in Chapter 11, " said Douglas Bradley, vice president of Challenge Manufacturing, which supplies the structural components that hold vehicles together.
Corsair, with half a billion dollars in annual revenue, has built an excellent reputation for designing and manufacturing innovative, high-performance components and peripherals for PC enthusiasts and gamers.
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Their experience with the manufacturing hardware used to make HDD components was transferred to making semiconductor devices, such as flash memory, or in many cases, making solar energy products.
The first prong involved investing heavily in advanced technology and manufacturing to create defensible market share in components.
Overseas money is invested overseas in new retail stores, the purchase of raw materials, the buying of manufacturing equipment, pre-paying for components etc.
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New casting and manufacturing methods can produce lighter, stronger components.
Manufacturing, which is one of the components of the index of production along with mining and quarrying, gas and electricity, and water and sewerage, fell 0.3% compared with the previous month.
Some of the industries within manufacturing that have shown the strongest growth over the last 12 months have included machine shops, manufacturers of metalworking machinery, plastics product manufacturing and manufacturers of electrical equipment and components, Sageworks data shows.
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This conversion process creates a complex system of multiple components held to tight tolerances making manufacturing more challenging.
IBM, decades ago, made the basic strategic error of implementing a manufacturing integration schemata instead of outsourcing semiconductors and other components.
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The Rolls-Royce Crosspointe facility is a center of excellence for advanced manufacturing of precision-engineered engine discs and other components for some of the most sophisticated aircraft in the world.
They were only minor players in these erstwhile American-led industries in the 1980s but are now dominant in everything from optical fibers to smartphone components, not to mention virtually every serious manufacturing challenge in the aerospace industry.
The relaxation of rules on the origins of cars is to ease the concerns of major foreign investors manufacturing cars in Korea, considering their heavy dependence on foreign parts and components.
India taxes partly-assembled auto parts by up to 100%, while unassembled components are taxed at 10%, a measure meant to encourage local manufacturing.
By 2012 ten of the world's biggest car companies will be manufacturing up to 1.6m vehicles a year in Russia, with a large components industry growing up around them.
But many of Apple's suppliers have manufacturing facilities in China, so it's likely that some portion of the components they build for the iPhone are made in China as well.
Flash memory and other semiconductor manufacturing uses equipment with a lot of similarities to the equipment used to make magnetic recording components.
This could reduce productivity if it damaged the global manufacturing supply chain, which often involves multi-national companies ordering many of their key components from overseas.
Because components differ a great deal in terms of size, raw material bases and manufacturing methods, it's hard to see them as one monolithic industry.
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