The company also cut its mobile phone unit production forecast to 11.5% growth from 12.9%.
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Indeed, he liked to stress that wages are irrelevant apart from how they factor into per-unit production costs.
Or if you prefer, the marginal cost of one more unit of production is near zero.
Simon asserted the opposite: more people meant more brains meant better methods of extraction and lower usage per unit of production.
It was a particularly foolish idea for an economy that, thanks to decades of high oil prices and strict regulation, already boasts manufacturers that are among the most efficient in the world in carbon emissions per unit of production.
Mr Irvine has a production unit in Beith and shops in Beith, Dalry and Kilbirnie.
The camera on the model we played with (which is very much a pre-production unit) was slightly crooked.
One executive producer credit goes to an agency suit: Robert Riesenberg, who heads up production unit Magna Global Entertainment.
It is also looking to consolidate its document production unit into one site.
More sales equal larger economies of scale, which lowers per-unit costs of production for businesses and cuts prices for consumers.
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Under the proposals, the document production unit will be consolidated, drawing staff from eight UK offices to one location in Leeds.
Barbara Casey, ex-director of the American Humane Association film and production unit, says producers "engaged in ongoing, systematic and unlawful animal abuse".
ZooBiotic now produces 600, 000 maggots, and 1, 500 dressings per month from its pharmaceutical production unit, supplying a client base of more than 4, 000.
Obviously, this is a pre-production unit, and we expect we'll be checking back in with the Z2420 as we learn more about the devices that use it.
We imagine this change will upset many ThinkPad devotees, but given that we haven't seen a final production unit, we're not ready to pass judgement on the update.
Research In Motion shares are trading higher Tuesday morning on a report that CEO Thorstein Heins said the company is mulling the sale of its hardware production unit, among other strategic options.
Until now all these devices have been one-off prototypes, but CUPP's partnering with Origin to make the PunkThis board available as an option on the EON11-S. The machine we played with was a pre-production unit using CUPP's single core ARM module running Gingerbread, but the company is working on a multi-core version with Jelly Bean.
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The white unit was closest to production, with a proper power button and green LED lighting in the base.
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Tracking data from the 50 largest listed oil and gas producing companies globally (ex FSU) indicates that cash, production and unit costs in 2011 grew at a rate significantly faster than the 10 year average.
We've done our best to translate the feel with our in-person photos of the pre-production sample unit here, but we'd say it's something we weren't able to fully appreciate ourselves until it was in the same room with us.
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The model we tested isn't a production-line unit, but rather a hand-built exemplar for reviewers.
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There are set-up costs that make per-unit expense lower for large production runs than for short runs.
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The model caught us by some surprise as it transpired that the unit was a pre-production teaser, loosed upon the unsuspecting show floor well ahead of its intended May launch.
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Iron ore was the largest contributor to Anglo's profit in 2011, but the firm said production at its key Kumba Iron Ore unit fell 19% to nine million tonnes, after five million tonnes of production were lost at its Sishen mine due to the strike.
The fourth unit will focus on the development and production of vehicle components such as engines and transmissions.
In addition to the bad deal, Kodak's health imaging unit had internal problems with shipments and production, Yannas says, which perhaps hastened the departure of former division head J.
Final deliveries of the F-22 were completed in the second quarter of 2012, and thereafter the production was halted citing high unit costs for F-22 and delays in Russian and Chinese fifth-generation fighter jets.
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Set for a March release, the film will be distributed by Viacom, whose Paramount motion picture unit handled most of the movie's production.
While the unit we played with is a pre-production model and will likely be fixed by the time it hits retail, the display was slightly washed out and light was bleeding in from both sides of the panel.
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