It has upped its manufacturing cycle 6%, at the same instituting moderate price hikes.
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Specialisation, in which a firm does only one phase of the manufacturing cycle, partly explains this fragmentation.
It features an extra-long manufacturing life cycle to support extended deployment schedules and provide a consistent platform across enterprise digital signage networks.
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It will be innovation more broadly, and new technologies across all sectors of our economy, that will create long-term expansion for the economy and a new great cycle of job growth.(See The Next Great Growth Cycle.) Manufacturing is coming back, and is being revitalized by advancing technology from the full infusion of information technology to the seeming magic of emerging 3D printing.
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As environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg notes, manufacturing and charging electric cars over their life cycle can produce more carbon than small, gas-powered vehicles.
This component, with extremely short cycle times in an industrially oriented manufacturing process, already demonstrates what will be possible in the future.
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The strategy effectively skips a whole cycle of traditional price drops as manufacturing gets more efficient, but trains a legion of customers to think that such a jump in value is completely normal and sustainable by most of the industry.
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Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.
Construction may be earlier in the recovery cycle than some of the other industries, like manufacturing and retail.
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This Continuing Resolution, if passed, would not just eliminate jobs from the solar industry, or from construction or manufacturing orders, but would eliminate jobs across the energy innovation cycle and across various innovative energy technology sectors.
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But for the rest, the recovery in manufacturing and housing in swing states owes more to the rhythms of the business cycle and global conditions, or to broad-based federal stimulus and easy monetary policy.
For bestselling products like the iPhone 5, the manufacturing process is the source of 76 percent of the 75kg of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the life cycle of one unit.
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