And they would benefit from a splurge of capital that would allow large-scale manufacturing and thus lower costs.
As it makes the tricky transition from demonstration-scale production to commercial-scale manufacturing, it has little room for execution error.
The Pentagon, which wanted to keep those wars limited and short, avoided planning for large-scale manufacturing, even after its necessity became obvious.
Small-scale manufacturing activity features the processing of peanuts, fish, and hides.
At the same time, the government has moved to reduce the dependence on tourism by promoting the development of farming, fishing, and small-scale manufacturing.
Large scale manufacturing, union power, a strong middle class and the music that became the soundtrack for American life all can claim roots in Motown.
Hillcrest also offers fully designed reference remote controls for those companies that have limited in-house design services, leveraging Hillcrest's expertise in industrial design, MEMS electronics, and mass scale manufacturing.
The company has set up large scale manufacturing operations for diapers in countries like China and is scaling up its sales channels in other South Asian regions.
He points to maintenance applications, medical solutions--especially used during surgery or patient rounds--and large-scale manufacturing applications as areas that can produce the sort of easily measurable returns that attract corporate interest.
An illustration earlier this year was the delay in FDA approval of a biological used to treat Pompe disease--a debilitating inherited disorder--that was to be manufactured in a new, larger-scale manufacturing facility.
The funding (led by existing investor Founders Fund, and Highland Capital Partners) will serve to scale manufacturing as the company prepares for the retail launch of the Leap Motion controller in the coming quarter.
Toshiba would benefit from economies of scale in manufacturing flash memory, solid-state drives and server-use drives.
Before the end of the year, China's government will likely finalize regulations needed to begin large scale EV manufacturing.
It was, to a large extent, the economies of scale in manufacturing and distribution that drove indies into the big firms' arms.
With economies of scale in manufacturing, procurement, distribution, marketing, sales, financing and research and development, you could get so giant no competitor could effectively attack your products or prices.
The conventional wisdom is that a large-scale shift from manufacturing jobs to service industry jobs is inevitable.
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"Music players and phones have driven tremendous manufacturing scale for flash, " Fowler says.
Vibrant Research is working on snap-in-place fabrication that may scale to mass manufacturing volumes cheaply enough to deliver VC returns.
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The next phase is to scale up the manufacturing process, with the aim of making the material rather as you would convert wood-pulp to newsprint.
Many startups only recently entered the market and need to gain manufacturing scale to lower their production costs, or else they will never be competitive, Mehta said.
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Basically, Tesla is making a move from niche to mainstream once it has a handle on two critical things (1) manufacturing at scale (2) a cheaper battery to make the less-expensive car viable.
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The White House report notes that the Recovery Act is accelerating solar energy innovation by providing funding for greater solar energy deployment, manufacturing and scale-up, and catalyzing needed technological breakthroughs to create novel and more efficient technologies.
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Judge James Russell found the defendants to have orchestrated large-scale and sophisticated counterfeit manufacturing operations in China and to have imported vast amounts of counterfeit products into Canada with the intent of selling them nationwide in stores, at gift shows and online.
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So the question is: can a company with a manufacturing need really scale a business through an ecosystem?
Combine this with the power that Ford brings in terms of investment finance and manufacturing economies of scale, and the result can be impressive, as the recent turnaround at Jaguar has shown.
Society advanced from agricultural to industrial via manufacturing on a massive scale.
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