Thanks to modern design and manufacturing techniques, virtually all products function they way they should.
Insiders within the major watch companies also furnish intelligence as to manufacturing techniques and what to reproduce.
Workers at the Tata Motors factory have been trained in Japanese manufacturing techniques that call for continuous improvement.
Today the new manufacturing techniques have brought Northwest's tool prices to within 15% of the low-cost Asian competitors.
Workers at the Tata Motors factory have been trained in Japanese manufacturing techniques that call for continual improvements.
But bao thinks improved manufacturing techniques and nano-materials can improve the efficiency dramatically.
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In the past few years, however, producers have devised clever manufacturing techniques which use only a tenth as much silver as before.
To this end, it has introduced lean manufacturing techniques in its Seattle factories, even bringing in a moving conveyor line to streamline aircraft assembly.
In practice, that will have to wait a while, since wiring up such densely packed pixels to receive comprehensible instructions is beyond existing manufacturing techniques.
Under current manufacturing techniques, manufacturers take their sapphire or silicon carbide wafer and chop, or cut it into individual chips, which get tested and packaged.
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Nick Reilly, who heads GM's international operations, says that part of the answer is to adopt low-cost manufacturing techniques and not to load cheap cars with unnecessary technology.
As with many other products--including tungsten-filament lightbulbs, X-ray machines and jet engines--GE bought patents from an inventor to get into the turbine business, then refined the design and manufacturing techniques ( see time line).
Electrowetting supposedly provides better brightness and response time than competing reflective display technologies while using essentially the same manufacturing techniques, and according to a handy comparison chart on MobileRead, is just about the best thing ever.
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Li Fei, analyst for Dagong Global Credit Rating Company and author of the bond rating report, told FORBES that optical fiber preform is the upstream product of the optical fiber industry and requires high technical content in its manufacturing techniques.
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It is also uncertain that the technologies ostensibly to be "flowed-back" to the United States in exchange for the F-16 technical data, etc. will be of comparable value to the U.S. defense industry as will, for example, insights provided to the Japanese into U.S. sophisticated design and manufacturing techniques.
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As with the "mass custom" trend in auto manufacturing, information technology and "just in time" techniques make it possible to classify individual voters by income, occupation, religion and favorite issues and build customized appeals for them.
Further, as manufacturing moves toward a more information-intensive, automated, and flexible future, it is returning to the US. With new materials, new techniques and demands for mass-customization, manufacturing will increasingly rely on knowledge, design capabilities, innovation and research.
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The players' improved audio and video performance is also attributed to Pioneer's unique construction techniques that have been honed for more than 30 years in the optical disc manufacturing business.
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