An e-mail exchange with a team member turns into a TouchPoint when she brings up a production delay.
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All is at a delicate equilibrium, until the owner feels compelled to give in to a firmly worded request from the retailer for an additional discount, or a demand to air-freight, at manufacturer's expense, some boxes of shirts that suffered a two-week production delay and now won't be accepted by the retailer if they're any later than they already are.
The Hobbit, now in pre-production in New Zealand under director Peter Jackson, is also dealing with a labor dispute that threatens to further delay production on the picture which is slated for release in December 2012.
Site visits and development of SPCC plans after completion will delay production.
For instance, LG Chem Michigan officials told us that they made a decision to delay production of battery cells at the Michigan facility.
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In addition, the transfer of numerous facilities from one operator to another will cause inefficiencies and delay production, if a new plan must be prepared prior to operation of the facility by the new owner.
With the weaker yen, some question whether Nissan will follow through with its plan to shift SUV production to the U.S. On April 12, the Nikkei business daily reported that the auto maker may delay the production shift.
This might also have a knock-on effect and delay future production runs of the device.
What appears to have irked the Kazakhs even more has been Eni's nonchalant attitude towards the delay of production.
This means that there would be no benefit in terms of quality, if, as some suggest, we were to delay the production of the preliminary estimate.
Refinements get lost in translation, more quality controls are required, and time zones and transport schedules delay prototyping and production.
Obviously, we have seen from manufacturers a delay in the production of the vaccine that we're working daily to help rectify.
At the very least, this is likely to delay the commencement of production from this mine beyond the anticipated date.
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The basic reason is that Qualcomm, makers of some of the necessary chips, cannot ramp up production fast enough, thus the delay.
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Mr. Taylor, for instance, will have to postpone planting some soybeans this spring until after the wheat is harvested, and that delay could cut into production.
According to CEO Jamie Sokalsky, the increase in total construction cost at Pascua Lama can be split approximately equally between the impact of the delay of first gold production to the second half of 2014, increased labor hours and installation rates.
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The A350's delay is due to a production problem involving drilling holes in the plane's wings.
Mr Black said the parliament's corporate body had not significantly altered requirements over the last four years and as such the main cause of the delay since September 2000 was the production of detailed variations in the design and the late delivery of information.
According to DigiTimes, Amazon might have to delay the release of its highly anticipated phone after encountering unexpected issues with its production partner, Foxconn International Holdings.
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He put himself in charge of GM's most important and sickly unit, GM North America, and said he would delay building a rear-wheel-drive car line so he could move up production of the company's next generation large SUVs like the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon.
According to the China Post, Quanta "will start production of low-cost machines for the One Laptop per Child project in September after a nine-month delay, " and interestingly, it even cites the recent hardware alterations as a culprit for the latest hangup.
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While these are meant to replace production from older facilities, not to add new output, it is understood that the Saudis are now planning to delay the retirement of older fields in order to help ease the oil price.
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