Aside from the human cost, companies and consumers participate in a bizarre process in which electronics manufacturers assemble products overseas, pay for their hauling to the Americas and Europe, spend money transporting unwanted products near where they were originally made, and then finally, pay for their disposal.
Cisco, which relies on other manufacturers to assemble its products, lifted profitability by consolidating its orders with fewer of them and shipping more than 90percentt of what it sold straight from those manufacturers to its customers.
The manufacturers now assemble and paint most cars based on guesses of what combinations of options and colors will interest consumers, then ship them to dealers, which keep huge numbers of cars available, an expensive undertaking.
Impatient with the local firms but determined to revive its domestic industry, the government in 2005 passed a law designed to entice foreign manufacturers to assemble their products in Russia.
As soon as they figure out the quality control issues, ship the pieces to the manufacturer, assemble the units, and pass Apple's app certification process, they'll get those pre-orders out to you right away! WakeMate is a sleep aid system that monitors your sleep patterns, then wakes you at a time calculated to be most beneficial to your restfulness.
He's been quietly swallowing up several companies in Europe and in the U.K.; they include Aran, a manufacturer of assembled kitchen cabinets, and Griffin Windows, a maker of vinyl windows.
To place orders, customers call a free-phone number connected to Federal Express's logistics service, which passes the orders on to a contract manufacturer that assembles them from various parts.
You can either deal with a computer manufacturer who assembles PCs to order and sells them over the Internet, or you can buy from a local computer assembler.
Labor conditions may have improved at factories owned by China's Foxconn, the manufacturer responsible for assembling tech products for Apple and Samsung, among other major companies, but workers there still aren't happy.
Follow the manufacturer instructions for assembling the single glass plates on the 2D casting system for slab gels.
Automobile and computer manufacturers — businesses that assemble many pieces of technology into a product, as opposed to businesses whose product is a single technology — are not so pleased.
