Car plants are humming, taking work from less competitive factories in Europe.
An important pr erequisite for prospective competitive factories is an effective and enduring development of production-related competencies in today's universities for manufacturing engineering.
In addition to the highly competitive auto factories that are already there, extensive regulations in Japan set unique standards for even mundane equipment like headlights.
Each told me that the moves to Michigan provided them with a skilled work force and operating expenses that are largely competitive with factories abroad.
This is expected to improve the predictive and explicative capabilities of kinetic models, and thereby their applicability for in silico design of industrially competitive cell factories [ 46].
Negotiations with the United Automobile Workers union had cut those costs, he said, and made the factory competitive again.
While the United States has been pressing China for years to lift the strict controls on its currency, which keep Chinese exports competitive and more factory workers employed, American voters and lawmakers have only recently seized on exchange rates as a potent political issue.
Indeed, no matter how you look at it, the SRT-4 is a remarkable value in the competitive market for factory-tuned small cars.
Interviews with executives at a number of companies that specialize in designing for the private labels of department stores and other chains reveal a highly competitive network of factories, which use the latest technology to reproduce designer looks with the impunity and speed of Robin Hood.
Keeping the different parts of the manufacturing process clustered together geographically makes the project economically competitive with overseas factories despite its higher labor costs and better working conditions, says Harry Moser, president of The Reshoring Institute, a nonprofit seeking to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US.
ICT and bio-based technologies cut the costs of traditional manufacturing, and can make our auto and other factories competitive again.
