To get an idea of this potential reduction in value, an increase of just 5% to our base manufacturingcost forecast can reduce our SunPower stock price estimate by almost 15%.
The pilot institute will address a focused technology area to reduce the risk and cost of commercializing and scaling-up new manufacturing products and processes.
If we restrict or heavily tax imports, reduce the regulatory cost of doing business in the USA and encourage domestic manufacturing we can bring jobs back.
"The advantage of in-cell is that you're streamlining the manufacturing process, so in time you should be able to drive efficiencies and reducecost, " IHS analyst Rhoda Alexander told Wired.
The Institutes will each have a well-defined technology focus to address industrially-relevant manufacturing challenges on a large scale and to provide the capabilities and facilities required to reduce the cost and risk of commercializing new technologies.
While the primary goal was to reduce the IT cost of running our Dell factories, the second goal was to drive business process consistency across our manufacturing operations.