And Western is not the only company that has had to reduce production in the country.
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These products are also designed to optimize production yields, improve throughput, and reduce production costs.
Amplats plans to reduce production to between 2.1-2.3 million ounces per annum "to more closely align output with expected demand".
Eliminating shifts at two other truck plants in Michigan and Missouri will help reduce production capacity by 400, 000 units, the company said.
The slower growth also happened during the time when solar manufacturers struggled to reduce production to eliminate an imbalance of supply and demand.
Unfettered by job assignments, participants can set an objective--say, to reduce production errors or streamline order entry--or come up with novel product ideas.
The Saudis and some other OPEC countries did indeed reduce production in the Fall of 1973, but the cutback was less than the inventory buildup in early 1973.
For more concrete products, manufacturers have moved towards cheaper materials in order to reduce production costs, but the result can be products that fall apart sooner.
Lufkin also provides a wide array of automation systems for oil and gas wells to optimize their artificial lift technologies with an ultimate objective to reduce production costs.
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Ford long ago decided to reduce production of its top-selling Explorer SUV in anticipation that its customers might switch to its new car-based so-called crossover SUV, the Ford Freestyle.
Toyota employees would then work in the field and provide pro bono consulting services with the goal of increasing productivity and safety while helping to reduce production costs and time.
In the meantime, the automakers await word on the acceptability of their plans to dramatically reduce production and add tens of thousands of new Americans to the ranks of the unemployed.
For example, markups are added to expensive pieces of medical equipment, and there is little incentive for manufacturers or suppliers to find ways to reduce production costs, as would normally happen in other parts of the economy.
After all, Western Digital warned back in October that it would sharply reduce production in the December quarter as a result of the floods, and multiple analysts have warned that PC production would be constrained as a result.
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The United States of America and the Russian Federation intend to increase cooperation in addressing the world drug problem, so as to radically reduce production and consumption of illicit drugs, as affirmed by resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
The AGA report says that 70% of the 61 million people in the U.S. who suffer from heartburn can get relief from readily available antacids (Tums, Rolaids), which neutralize stomach acids, and the so-called H2 receptor antagonists (Pepcid AC, Tagamet HB and Zantac 75), which reduce production of stomach acids.
They believe that simple modifications, such as curing below 60C, could reduce the production of these compounds, and thus reduce the risk of triggering anaphylactic shock.
The largest volcanoes might cause short-term climate change profound enough to reduce agricultural production precipitously in many places at once.
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Fertilizer producer Mosaic (MOS) said late yesterday it plans to reduce phosphate production, because prices have fallen to levels that are unsustainable.
Taken together, the two events essentially negated all the mitigation gains that had been made over the previous 20 years to reduce junk production from spent rocket explosions.
Tanzania and Uganda have banned smoking in public places and countries like Ghana, Kenya and Mauritius have ratified the WHO tobacco control treaty, which promises to increase tax on tobacco sales, introduce smoking bans and reduce tobacco production.
Those permanent increases only further reduce incentives for production, and only contribute further to economic downturn and stagnation under any economic theory.
In order to reduce inventories, production is also being slashed.
The company is still dealing with the problem of low-quality ore from the mine, which forced the company to significantly reduce its copper production outlook for the year.
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Coach will reduce its overall production in China to about 50% by 2015 from more than 80% in 2011 so the handbag maker isn't too reliant on one country, a spokeswoman says.
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James McNerney, a former boss of 3M, a manufacturer, damaged the company's innovation engine by trying to apply six-sigma principles (which are intended to reduce errors on production lines) to the entire company, including the research laboratories.
While sales taxes are less economically destructive than income taxes, because they tax consumption rather than production, people produce to consume, so those sales taxes still reduce the reward for production, and hence the incentive.
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Specifically, there is concern that the priority of the Chinese would be to maximize production and drive down world prices in order to reduce the cost of domestic food production.
Getting rid of wonky mitochondria would reduce free-radical production and might thus slow down ageing.
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