Sentence examples for lean manufacturers from inspiring English sources

Lean manufacturers boost efficiency by making products as and when they are needed.

Lean manufacturers like Dell, Toyota and other competitive automakers have very little inventory in the factory itself approaching the ideal zero.

There is no technical reason for it except the stealthy hand of the Motion Picture Association of America, which has leaned on the manufacturers to handicap the camcorders in the hands of the public.

These are lean times for Italian manufacturers.

Apart from subsidies, organized labor's givebacks in recent years have contributed significantly to what manufacturers call "lean" practices.

While an estimated 70 percent of the ground beef sold in this country in early 2011 contained what the manufacturers call "lean finely textured beef," orders from supermarkets for ground beef containing the ingredient plummeted this spring after a series of supposed exposés raised consumer concerns.

Global and lean supply chains subject manufacturers to sudden disruptions of different severity that affect shops floors and performance.

This week, Beef Products, a large manufacturer of lean beef, an ingredient used to make hamburger meat, announced that it had started testing for the six additional strains of E. coli at one of its five grinding plants.

Of all the peculiar gimmicks a smartphone manufacturer could lean on to make a device stand out, 3D always seemed like one of the most pointless.

The layoffs are part of 15,000 to 20,000 worldwide job cuts that Lucent plans by the end of this year as it tries to retool itself into a leaner, more efficient manufacturer of equipment for large wire-line and wireless companies.

The lean inventories at original equipment manufacturers and distributors, along with reduced cost structures, should foster a spring-loaded snapback in margin improvement and revenue growth later next year.