If we take this analogy back into Manufacturing, I believe manufacturing companies must now be partially like a word document and partially like a printer.

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In fact, the quality of this document is emblematic of the problems the FDA has been seeing with Ranbaxy manufacturing plants since 2008.

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He then made the management document public, all in the midst of negotiations with two southern governors to build a manufacturing plant.

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