The advent of Smart VIERA HDTV centers on five main points: Networking, Easy Operation, Picture Quality, Eco and Design elements.
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By delivering our unique technologies together, Synology and WD will provide users with greater reliability, cooler operation and a higher quality of user experience.
Thor's back-office organization has helped Keystone boost its once-struggling quality and service operation and spare-parts distribution.
Using this mode requires minimal effort and does not sacrifice image quality for simple operation.
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But, ironically, the Japanese automaker would never consider outsourcing a quality-sensitive operation like a body shop or paint shop, says Jeffrey Liker, a University of Michigan engineering professor and author of The Toyota Way.
"McNeil is taking steps to bring its operation back to a level of quality that Johnson and Johnson demands of its companies, and that the public rightly expects of us, and that we expect of ourselves, " the company said in a statement.
While cost continues to be the primary cloud ROI metric, there has been a surge in adoption of quality of delivered results and speed of operation, and utilization of resources as metrics as well.
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As Jeffrey Li, the head of Novartis's Chinese operation, points out, there is also a shortage of facilities that can produce high quality artemisinin and its derivatives.
The former boss of Coca-Cola's Mexican operation, whose 58th birthday fell on election day, talks of infusing government with total quality management and tracking it with performance indicators.
Kenichi Ohmae, a consultant who used to run McKinsey's operation in Japan, says it took the Japanese 40 years to develop the sophisticated products and the quality control that allowed them to prosper.
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