Like Ford Motor, GM is moving toward so-called global architectures-- single sets of components for vehicles worldwide--which will boost its economies of scale.

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Barra's mission is to make the hard product decisions early--and stick with them--so that GM can speed the transition to "global architectures": meaning the use of single sets of components for vehicles worldwide to drive up GM's economies of scale.

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The remote also offers up to four macro programs for simultaneous activation of multiple components and feature sets.

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These components, which have their own private sets of genes, are essential for metabolism: they release energy from sugar.

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