That cuts down on inventory and wasted factory space, and this, too, has been widely copied.
The slowdown has also given the company plenty of spare factory space at both the Renton and Everett plants.
In 2004 protesters prevented Home Depot and Lowe's from moving into vacant factory space on the western edge of town.
For inspiration, take a look at a 33-acre (floor space) engine factory that opened 18 months ago in rural Dundee, Mich.
The project, which would create land for new factories, has long since stopped making sense, says Miss Domoto: thanks to the weak economy, Chiba has plenty of empty factory space already.
Today these two firms are one, which gets its wool from Australia and its power from the national grid, and its boss chafes at the restrictions a narrow valley places on floor space in his factory.
He said the collapse involved a mezzanine area that had been added between two buildings above a loading bay, to create more factory floor space.
The factory floor space at Marlin Steel is being doubled and there is no doubt the company is doing well, prospering even, during the bad years.
The Park51 space, a former Burlington Coat factory, is a five-story, mildly run-down building.
Capital Factory will provide free work space for six months.
It is based at the Tobacco Factory, an arts centre and theatre space in Bedminster.
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Robert Bigelow, a budget hotel-chain mogul, built a life-size space station in his well-guarded Bigelow Aerospace factory in Nevada.
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Vivian and Shelly lived in downtown Los Angeles, in an industrial space that belonged, nominally, to a ribbon factory, whose warehouse was attached.
City of Hope's gene factory encompasses 20, 000 square feet of space, half of it devoted to "clean room" labs dedicated to producing complex, genetically engineered treatments for its trials.
To hear traditional and contemporary indigenous music live, make a stop at the Dulan Sugar Factory Cafe, a former sugar factory that has been converted into a performance space for indigenous singers who hold impromptu jam sessions and welcome visitors to join in.
He joked that initially "we had a tiny little factory" near a suburban strip mall, where space was so scarce that all the stages of a single rocket couldn't fit into the same building.
Factory is all about creativity, with a recording studio, exhibition space and retail shop.
Zeiss is running out of space for its chip-technology business, and is building a new DM200m factory at Oberkochen.
After moving from my small apartment in Manhattan to a large newly renovated paper factory loft in Brooklyn, I started to design DIY pieces to decorate my new space.
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The soon-to-go-on-sale Ceed hatchback is being produced in Kia's shiny, new factory a few minutes drive from Zilina, where the narrow valley expands to make space for a vast industrial complex stretching across 166 hectares.
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One corner of the once dark industrial-era factory has been painted bright white, and Passin had windows punched into the walls to flood the space with more light.
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