The integrated view of product development and manufacturing demands a thinking in chains of added value.

对产品开发和制造作整体考虑，提出了在创造价值链中进行思考的要求。

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Many products and services are created along supply chains that travel from idea conception to final consumption and that include value-added activities of varying degrees of labor-, physical capital-, and intellectual capital-intensity.

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