But it has run into quality problems before that included bleeding colors on some tops.
Mercedes-Benz (a division of DaimlerChrysler) has been struggling with quality problems over the last few years.
The company has had a series of recalls for quality problems with battery packs and cooling fans.
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And at market bottoms, its strategy is to pick high-quality companies but which still have earnings-quality problems.
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Padilla also improved the company's design and engineering, the source of two-thirds of all automotive quality problems.
Yet despite the widespread expectation of impending loan-quality problems, the big banks reduced impairment charges in Q3.
But the company has been burdened with various quality problems that have dogged the launch of the Karma.
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Whalen says there is a risk the contagion will spread further and create more credit quality problems for banks.
Toyota, moreover, has perfected the art of detecting and fixing quality problems early, often before customers even notice them.
This cleanup process is time consuming and also leads to test quality problems.
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More than one third of all business downtime results from power quality problems, according to Electric Light and Power magazine.
Several years ago, tents delivered to the Marine Corps had quality problems.
Ford executives certainly understand what could be at stake in getting a handle on any mechanical or quality problems with the 2013 Escape.
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Volkswagen and Audi only recently emerged from big quality problems, such as Audis' tendency towards random acceleration, in the 1980s and early '90s.
When the tool supplier is situated nearby, he says, communication between engineers is better and cheaper, leading to improved manufacturing and fewer quality problems.
At this price level, there is no room for quality problems.
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As I was first to report in 2007, Merck and then-partner Schering-Plough delayed analyzing the study, called ENHANCE, for months over what they believed were data quality problems.
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One of the worst cases occurred in September 2004 when the tiny biotech firm Atherogenics had to call in Nissen to help reinterpret results of a troubled IVUS study that suffered from data quality problems.
The day after the post came a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (May 25, 2012) that MHI has encountered quality problems in its MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet) program that will delay deliveries by a year.
Tesla had early quality problems, too.
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The film highlights key water quality problems such as lack of access to safe water and sanitation, inefficient wastewater management in urban areas, water pollution caused by intensive use of nutrients and chemicals in agriculture, the invisible threat of new and emerging pollutants in water and the economic costs of water quality degradation.
Within the clubby world of toy manufacturers, which stretches from the office blocks of east Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong to the factories over the border, Smart Union was seen as one of the winners, a trusted manufacturer with none of the quality problems that came to terrify the buyers of Chinese products.
Too often companies that produce overseas fall victim to quality control problems in countries that don't have standards consistent with America's.
Kadish's leadership, engineering challenges and quality control problems that have plagued the development of successive hit-to-kill anti-missile systems have been largely overcome.
They said they didn't like how the big consulting firms outsourced much of their research to third parties, which created data quality control problems.
And he would still be alive, she claims, if the biotech had not experienced severe and persistent quality control problems that led to a subsequent rationing program ( read here).
As for A123, it also struggled with quality-control problems and competition from low-cost producers in Asia.
Ironically, the agency encouraged Shire to enter the Fabry disease market in the US in the wake of protracted quality-control problems encountered by Genzyme.
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