In Hay Day, you can spend to speed up production of eggs and milk, or upgrade silos and barns.

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Also, it plans to speed up production at other plants to meet demand.

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It is widely agreed that the best way to do this is to bring in more robots, more machines and a greater degree of automation to help speed up production, and workers in the car industry have had to become much more flexible in their attitudes to work.

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Thus, in the past quarter Dell has been sitting on 18 days' sales, and the figure is creeping up as the speed of production increases.

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The Quest ramped up to full production speed of 350 minivans per day in just eight weeks, allowing production to begin ten days earlier than planned on the Pathfinder Armada full-size SUV.

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Cowger also told reporters that the company would accelerate the design of new products and speed up the introduction of new vehicles in production.

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New production in China is expected to speed up growth in the coming year.

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Nor can Japanese suppliers be sure yet of how soon they can get back up to speed: hundreds of aftershocks, some strong enough to disrupt production, have rumbled on since the main quake.

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So one of his main recommendations is that the ultimate purchaser, whether it's government or Tesco for example, could put much more pressure on whoever they pay for stuff and services to speed up payments to the smaller suppliers that contributed at an earlier stage in the production chain.

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