The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the driving force behind a new effort to harness biology as a manufacturing platform.

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First, the reindustrialization of America: The U.S. is an increasingly attractive manufacturing platform because of productivity gains, more flexible labor markets, technological advances and lower energy costs.

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The company is proving that manufacturing can be a platform for extensive, rapid innovation (Samsung makes its own chips as well as innovating in display technology, and is moving into lighting and medical technology) but it is also illustrating something else.

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The organizational unit through which these results are to be achieved at Haier is the ZZJYT: small, autonomous units of ten to twenty people, each with direct responsibility for a geographical area, a product, or a manufacturing process and seen as an entrepreneurial platform in an otherwise large, complex organization.

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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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Crump changed suppliers, tightened manufacturing tolerances on the pellet feeder and replaced the erratic sensors used to control the platform.

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