But if Foxconn comes to an American city, it would allow the Apple to quickly and easily bring its product assembly back to the United States.
Subtle changes in product design simplify assembly or reduce the number of people needed to complete a product.
Teams of ten or so, each ensconced in an area of perhaps a thousand square feet, handle most of a product's assembly.
Teams of ten or so, each ensconced in an area of perhaps a hundred square meters, handle most of a product's assembly.
For years GM operated as a loose federation, in which Opel in Europe and Holden in Australia each had their own product development and assembly operations, separate from North America.
Japan had pushed product design and the assembly-line genius of Henry Ford to new heights, which let it scale up volume and push down the price of Old Economy products.
In other companies, the tech leader is a very important part of the leadership team, but is more of an orchestrator of third party capabilities to help keep the place running and keep the product rolling off the assembly line, and not a part of how the business makes money.
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That means that the main financial benefit to China takes the form of wages paid for the assembly of the product or for manufacturing of some of the inputs.
In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.
With its Achilles heel now diagnosed, Jawbone took crucial steps to reinvent Up: the creation of a proprietary standard for testing (which involved a device known as the "Big Shower 2000"), an investment in over 100-plus new patents, a product trial spanning 46 weeks and a revised assembly process.
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After several years of the product being offered, we know that almost all new cars come down the assembly line with a satellite radio receiver.
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