From Japan we learned just in time inventory control, manufacturing quality control and continuous improvement, innovation in consumer electronics design, and an appreciation for sushi.
These days, the big idea is to control manufacturing, distribution, retailing and marketing.
Because there is tremendous variability in manufacturing and quality control standards from company to company, choosing an effective product can be challenging.
Carbon fiber illustrates a key criterion in high-tech manufacturing: quality control.
After speaking with FDA manufacturing and quality control consultants, and senior execs from other generic injectable makers, Malhotra believes the Hospira violations meet FDA criteria for entering a consent decree.
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"You have to control the manufacturing, design, shipping and the finishing, " says McCarthy, 31.
As the government agency that manufactures patents, the PTO has a lot of power to control its manufacturing process.
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In the past, Boeing has outsourced manufacturing but maintained tight control over design.
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So he's taken a job at a manufacturing plant in quality control.
We believe it is equipping itself for the long run by having control over the raw material supply and control over manufacturing plants.
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With patents on the new technology used in manufacturing, China would control the intellectual property and licensing on the products that would be used all over the world.
This new ownership will provide many opportunities, including continued product improvement, increased marketing support, funding for new product development, and manufacturing support to help control and reduce costs.
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But the crucial element may be that, in contracting manufacturing out to Chinese factories, GE lost control over, and input into, the foundation of the manufacturing process, the assembly line.
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There are also strategic benefits to not having tighter control on the manufacturing and assembly process.
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Mr Quinn, 63, was stripped of control of his manufacturing and insurance business empire in April.
Fermanagh businessman Mr Quinn, 64, was stripped of control of his manufacturing and insurance business empire in April and owes billions of pounds.
For example, a lot of critical infrastructure and manufacturing processes use supervisory, control and data acquisition software (SCADAS) that, as it turns out, have lots of security holes.
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It put Synaptics through the passes, scrutinizing its quality control, testing and manufacturing capabilities.
Modern manufacturing processes combined with electronic fuel control and engine diagnostics make a single-engine jet much safer than earlier models.
The constructor will retain total control over its engine manufacturing base in Viry-Chatillon on the outskirts of Paris and also continue to supply engines to Red Bull in 2010.
And, tapping his auto parts experience, he introduced the just-in-time inventory-control system and lean manufacturing, which emphasizes reducing wasteful processes in order to make better products and respond quickly to customers.
Selling, general, and administrative expenses as well as manufacturing fixed costs were kept well under control, while the quarter was burdened by temporary inefficiencies related to the volume drop and an inventory reduction.
When there was a manufacturing based economy, this gave the workers some control over the means of production and therefore, a strong negotiating position.
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Ms Siddiqa estimates that they control one third of Pakistan's heavy manufacturing.
The various brands continued to maintain fiercely independent marketing and sales departments, but they no longer handled their own manufacturing, which was centralized directly under Hayek's control.
But it would be foolish to underestimate the ability of the world's biggest carmaker to put its house in order: it still has the most efficient system for product development and manufacturing, even if it must focus for the moment on quality control.
Crump changed suppliers, tightened manufacturing tolerances on the pellet feeder and replaced the erratic sensors used to control the platform.
More formidable still is Intel's ability to pair multibillion-dollar factories with unmatched manufacturing know-how, both of which have kept the company in control of the processor market for decades.
Police later seized control of the area, which is in southern China's manufacturing heartland and is home to migrants working in a number of textile factories.
The control over the supply chains will result in China continuing to be a manufacturing base.
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