Every change on the factory floor that allows workers to adapt to sudden shifts in demand reduces the excess capacity of people and plant space Dell must maintain to get products out on time.

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It has made space at the plant by outsourcing the assembly of many parts of the car to others.

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Ed Marx, who worked at the Chrysler plant in the 1960s and now owns retail space in downtown Belvidere, said he is holding a number of his empty storefronts from the market because he knows the interest isn't there yet.

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The plant has a 25, 000 square meter production space with a capacity to produce 15, 000 tons of potato chips annually.

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The feeling of surplus space is similar at a new Sany plant, in Lingang, about 40 miles southeast of Shanghai.

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Texas inspectors also found that the air handling system was pulling debris from the infested crawl space into production areas at the Plainview plant, which processes peanut meal, granulated peanuts and roasted peanuts.

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The government must choose between giving Sellafield a breathing space and bringing forward the closure of the reprocessing plant.

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Those companies included Vivint in the home security space and SunPower, a solar panel maker and power plant developer.

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Meanwhile, the longer it takes to rework the Fort Washington plant, the more difficult it will become to regain lost shelf space.

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