With its manufacturing efficiency and strong brand name, he says, Dell can defeat the cheap-PC guys just as it beat Packard Bell earlier in the decade.
The difficulty here is that drugmakers have often ignored manufacturing efficiency for a good reason: A slight change in the production process can occasionally result in a dangerous change in a medicine.
Clark, a Merck lifer who previously headed the company's manufacturing division, has focused initially on improving the efficiency of the company's production plants. (Under his plan, many of the job cuts will come from manufacturing, and five of Merck's 31 plants will be closed.) The goal, outlined on today's call, is to increase manufacturing efficiency, much as automakers like General Motors or computer makers like Dell have in the past.
And further manufacturing savings and efficiency improvements to LED lights will come with each generation of technology.
Both brothers subsequently built a software business that helped manufacturing companies optimize the efficiency of their plants and shop floors.
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The falling prices are forcing all manufacturers to put more effort into improving their manufacturing technology and module efficiency in order to get back ahead of the rapidly declining cost curve.
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The increasing focus by countries on renewable sources of power in the last few years has made the solar industry highly competitive with companies differentiating themselves largely on module manufacturing costs and module efficiency.
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The restructuring process, which began in 2009, is expected to reduce manufacturing costs, increase efficiency, facilitate far more flexibility in labor requirements, and will also help reduce product development time by 30% that will enable the company to launch new models faster.
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For then medical care will be subject to the usual increasing efficiency of the manufacturing sector.
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Such big projects make sense for large solar-cell producers like SunPower and Arizona-based First Solar, since they provide reliable demand with which to keep their manufacturing plants running at peak efficiency.
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The wheeler-dealers and quasi-wildcatters who pioneered the field have been replaced by engineers talking efficiency and managers describing manufacturing processes.
Incentives to promote energy efficiency and clean energy manufacturing don't automatically create jobs or lower carbon emissions -- but these steps provide a framework in which companies can compete and innovate to create those jobs and reduce energy consumption.
This assistance will be distributed in a way that rewards efficiency investment and make their manufacturing facilities more competitive.
All new aircraft face delays as they become technically more complex and as manufacturing methods change in search of greater efficiency.
In order to enhance the efficiency of Sony's manufacturing operations relating to its digital imaging business, the manufacture of interchangeable lenses and lens blocks currently being conducted at Sony EMCS Corp.
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As conventional photovoltaic module prices plunged, thin-film companies found themselves under increasing pressure to raise the efficiency of their products and lower manufacturing costs to remain competitive.
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But bao thinks improved manufacturing techniques and nano-materials can improve the efficiency dramatically.
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It became a training ground for a number of Toyota and GM managers, who learned how to work with Americans under a manufacturing system that placed an emphasis on quality and efficiency.
By providing this secure environment for multiple silicon, software and device manufacturing partners, the joint venture will enable greater operational efficiency across the ecosystem and the industry as a whole.
It has also started a number of efficiency and solar power projects that have taken select manufacturing plants off the power grid.
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Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan among others showed how to run big organizations by delivering mass production through managing the supply chain, parsing and manufacturing demand, controlling employees as human resources, and steadily increasing efficiency through economies of scale.
In spite of its high efficiency panels, SunPower has come under serious criticism for high manufacturing cost.
They say that for too long, Chrysler has allowed its marketing decisions to be driven by manufacturing concerns--how many vehicles can a factory churn out to maximize efficiency?
Success in this new world of manufacturing will require management that is radically different from the hierarchical bureaucracy focused on efficiency and shareholder value that is now prevalent in large firms like GE.
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The eco-rating system assesses 15 specific criteria drawn from five general categories of sustainability attributes - attributes include the usage of environmentally preferable materials, minimization of hazardous substances, energy efficiency, responsible end-of-life treatment and environmentally-responsible manufacturing.
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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.
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