The more these companies sell, the higher their productivity as they reduce labor costs per unit to a minimum.
By increasing productivity, training programs can hold down corporate labor costs per unit of production for years to come.
Orders are down, costs per unit are up, and the price of USEC's only product is declining.
In the jargon of economics, the marginal costs per unit of output tend towards zero and the returns to scale are high.
'There is a range of charges already on offer, with companies balancing higher standing charges with lower costs per unit - and that is in response to customer demand.
To maximize that figure, either a large volume of traffic units or a wide gap between revenues and costs per unit is needed.
As the Reid-Kyrk studies emphasized, it's easier to calculate relative costs per unit consumed than to estimate more indirect, long-run effects on physical and social health.
The high horizontal solar radiation in areas in and around the Atacama Desert make solar technologies more productive in these regions, translating into lower costs per unit of electricity generated.
Operators can reduce costs per unit of production and increase the margin of return over total cost by increasing rates of application of fertilizer on principal cash and feed crops.
Many old plants run only 25 or 30 percent of the hours in a year, he said, but the new plant will run 85 to 90 percent of the time because it will have lower costs per unit of electricity.
Higher plant capacities have lower production and capital costs per unit of biodiesel output.
