In Japan's case this meant implementing a rigid set of controls to monitor the imported ivory at manufacturing and retail levels to prevent re-export and laundering.
Indeed, until the globalization of the financial crisis, American manufacturing exports were reaching record levels.
Mobile handsets require high levels of precision manufacturing skill as well as strong supply chain capabilities.
Now that everyone wants one, lots of brands are manufacturing them, and adoption levels are through the roof, to the detriment of other electronic formats.
Modern manufacturing has succeeded in delivering levels of quality, safety and sheer variety that would have been inconceivable to the enterprise owner of even 20 years ago.
Customer inventory levels are low and manufacturing capacity remains tight.
It could be improved quality to reduce their defects in manufacturing, it could be improved levels of service to reduce delays, and it could include increasing customer service to get a better outcome.
Large stores like Wal-Mart and Target will give an indication of consumer appetite while stores like Home Depot and Loews will provide a proxy for activity levels in construction and manufacturing.
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Housing is weaker than the record levels in 2005, but manufacturing and commercial construction are stronger.
Western Digital said it expects to have manufacturing capacity back to pre-flood levels in the September quarter.
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Subsequently, on October 24, Fabrinet announced its Chokchai factory suffered extensive flood damage and is now largely inaccessible due to high water levels inside and surrounding the manufacturing facility.
These four states have also lost a disproportionate amount of jobs in construction or manufacturing or both, way above the national levels.
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Randolph Barker, a dog-loving management professor, monitored the stress levels of employees at a retailing and manufacturing business with a 14-year history of allowing dogs in the workplace.
By 2004, manufacturing, shipping and tourism had largely been restored to 1995 levels.
Intel's pathbreaking 45-nanometer manufacturing process is yielding at or above all-time record levels, leading to well above average margins in the most recent quarters as capacity utilization gets back to normal.
Meanwhile, HSBC's preliminary or "flash" reading of China manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index showed Monday that activity improved in April from levels seen in March, but remained below the threshold of 50, indicating a contraction.
Manufacturing accounts for about a fifth of eastern GDP, not far off western levels, and unit labour costs are lower.
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Scottish manufacturing output contracted modestly in January, marking the seventh consecutive monthly fall in production levels in the sector.
The paper sets out a range of new A-levels and GCSEs in vocational subjects, in areas such as engineering, manufacturing and tourism.
Corning, Rakesh says, is showing margin rebound to mid-2008 levels as factory utilization picks up and Corning Gen 8 and Gen 10 manufacturing efficiencies kick in.
From 1985-2003 I watched manufacturing move from numerous places, with its varied and numerous inputs, at numerous levels of the value chain, to the one place that could handle it all.
He will direct a comprehensive effort that will help lift up the hardest-hit areas by using the unprecedented levels of funding available in our Recovery Act and throughout our government to create new manufacturing jobs and new businesses where they're needed most -- in your communities.
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Industry analysts are cautiously optimistic about the sector after stronger year-to-date sales, healthier inventory levels, more favorable credit conditions and improved consumer sentiment have boosted demand for American light-vehicle manufacturing.
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