Production capacity numbers usually describe to what the factory equipment could produce if they operate around the clock, but they almost never do that because they get taken offline for maintenance and other reasons.
Every quarter Lexus and its dealers have a so-called make meeting where they talk about what is selling, in which colors and with what options, so the factory knows what to build.
When managers managed with a spreadsheet rather than real-world knowledge about what was actually going on in the factory and what were its possibilities, they overlooked hidden costs of the erosion of skills, the loss of quality and constraints on innovation.
When managers manage with a spreadsheet rather than real-world knowledge about what is actually going on in the factory and what were its possibilities, they overlook hidden costs of the erosion of skills, the loss of quality and constraints on innovation.
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Cincinnati Children's is a rare case in the U.S. health care system of what happens when factory-style operations management conquers the improvisational and often sloppy delivery of care in hospitals.
But as I watched the Model S roll out the door, it struck me what a survivor its factory has become.
The supplier in question was Stephan Goldner, who had won the Admiralty contract in 1845 by undercutting all rivals, thanks to cheap labour working at his meat factory in what is now Romania.
Sinclair got licked, he said, because the opposition ran what he called a Lie Factory.
They also visited real manufacturers in suburban Chicago to see what goes on in a factory.
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And the wages Wessely pays are a good three times what the Poles on his factory floor make back home.
Apparently Detroit is taking a page from foreign competitors and actually letting customers choose what they want in their car, not what is easiest at the factory.
Every new store or factory is purchased with what is left after paying taxes.
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Kaskol's executives sit on the board of each factory and help determine what part to produce and find buyers.
You would never know that the graceful brick smokestack on the north edge of town belonged to what was once the largest rope factory in the world.
This made some greens snipe at him, but it also made Walmart send two of its senior people round to his factory in LaGrange to see what he was doing right.
DaimlerChrysler's Smart factory in France comes closest to what Chrysler plans in Toledo.
The Moorestown factory was built in 1953 on what had been an asparagus farm by the old Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
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What about the guy who works at the factory outside of town?
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"What we are now seeing is a neutrino factory that will build upon our development since then of high power proton accelerators and target technology, " he explains.
Mr Randell recognises what a great manufacturing unit the former Remploy factory was, but knows business expertise was lacking, making it difficult to find new work and to keep the business moving forward.
Even if we assume that public education is wonderful, can you think like a factory owner for a moment and explain what value we have derived from a 57 percent real increase in federal education spending since 2000?
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What had murdered her was her mind, a madness factory full of blast furnaces and smokestacks.
Don't just benchmark European companies' supply chains--look at what Renault is doing in India, where its new factory has opened the door to many new low-cost suppliers.
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which began soon after the factory workers went home for the day and took three hours to bring under control.
"What this means is that if you have a cement factory in three or four countries, you may have to travel from country A to country B via Paris, London or Dubai rather than direct, " says Peaford, editor-in-chief of Arabian Aerospace magazine and online news service.
What modifications do police departments in the US typically make to factory cars purchased for use as a police cruiser?
"Whether you are buying a house or building a factory, you want a level of comfort about what can be built on your doorstep, " says Richard Blythe, head of policy at the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The Internet, Carr argues in his new book The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains, is a distraction factory.
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