In the late 1990s, Dell tore through the PC industry with its hyper-efficient, built-to-order manufacturing model.
Now, here comes Michael Dell, vowing to turn his company's low-cost, process-based manufacturing model directly onto both the printing and managed-services businesses.
Coupled with the new technologies, Kathwari is holding fast to an older and perhaps even (in this globalized era) contrary manufacturing model: stateside production.
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In his latest paper Drexler and co-author Chris Phoenix of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) propose a manufacturing model in which nanomachines could duplicate themselves without the risk of runaway replication.
The letter said that Tesla was on track to meet its target of manufacturing 5, 000 Model S sedans by the end of 2012.
The fundamental model we teach MBAs for thinking about manufacturing is the value chain, a simple model that describes the value adding steps that take a low value material like iron ore and turn it into a high value product like a Ferrari Testarossa.
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For some of the leaders, the Indian economy, which developed rapidly thanks to developing its manufacturing sector, was a model African countries could follow.
Crosspointe demonstrates the potential for supporting U.S. manufacturing through this type of collaboration model.
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Musk said Tesla has so far made 40 of the Model S and expects to be manufacturing 375 cars a week at its Fremont, Calif.
Nissan just announced that it will ramp up U.S. assembly of the 2013 model year all-electric LEAF at its manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tenn.
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Additive manufacturing is the process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer.
And the move to installing fiber and manufacturing its own hardware mean that the company is diversifying its business model to include more direct payments from users and not be wholly dependent on advertising revenues to fund all of this infrastructure.
This new business model will be the most important trait of America's manufacturing renaissance.
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Marconi plans to emulate the business model of companies such as Cisco and outsource 70% of its manufacturing, keeping only the most sensitive high-technology stuff in-house.
It is struggling to shift China away from the current unsustainable model, where growth is propelled by vast investment and export-led manufacturing, towards one where domestic consumption plays a bigger role.
This may be the crucial test for Mr Dell who, after all, gave his name not just to the firm but to a whole business model (just-in-time, made-to-order manufacturing using an outsourced supply chain), key elements of which have since been adopted by his competitors.
Additive manufacturing, often referred to as 3D printing, is a new way of making products and components from a digital model, and will have implications in a wide range of industries including defense, aerospace, automotive, and metals manufacturing.
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