"The goal of this partnership is to combine our in-space manufacturing expertise with Thorlabs' optical fiber expertise in order to rapidly develop microgravity-manufactured high-quality fiber and introduce it into existing and new markets".
When you make 25 billion needles a year, you develop manufacturing expertise.
H.P. brings to the tablet competition its resources as the largest PC company — manufacturing expertise, brand recognition and global distribution.
It increases the odds of success, because development expertise reinforces research, and manufacturing expertise feeds back into ongoing technological development.
Why not go to a company with manufacturing expertise, and marketing and sales channels, to lessen the risk of a new product?
JLR has spent a lot to bring manufacturing expertise in-house for the XE, says Haroon Hassan of Mitsubishi UFJ, a bank.
Drawing on artificial-intelligence capabilities, PARC researchers are developing software meant to help make manufacturing accessible to people without manufacturing expertise.
Most big companies have worked hard to standardize business models and create simplified operating structures to leverage economies of scale across a wealth of 'core' assets i.e. product development, manufacturing expertise, distribution reach, consumer insights, talent and suppliers.
And he has detailed how losing the "industrial commons"—the research know-how, engineering skills, and manufacturing expertise needed to make a specific technology can often mean losing the knowledge and incentives to create advances in related technologies.
"We brought manufacturing expertise in laminating, coating and adhesives from our packaging business.
Whereas the Germans and Japanese started out slowly and expanded their U.S. plants as manufacturing expertise and demand grew, Hyundai plans to race into full-speed production in a plant that can build 300,000 vehicles a year.
