SHERMAN BLACK, a senior vice president at Seagate Technology, a leader in hard drive manufacturing, lies awake at night worrying that his teenagers are part of a new generation of computer users who don't care if their data is stored locally or in the Internet "cloud".
Almost half of Indian manufacturing lies in the small-scale sector, and its productivity is severely affected by power outages.
The challenge to implementing the San Destin Principles in manufacturing lies in integrating them into the business decision-making framework.
According to Sir James Dyson, the billionaire inventor, Britain's hopes for maintaining a foothold in global manufacturing lie in research and development – generating new ideas.
We're not going to give you any more, because you have failed utterly to do your job, the job we pay you to do, and now you're making us pay for it.'" There is, visibly, a growing popular awareness that this is not a national question; global economic factors, unstoppable trends in world trade and manufacturing, lie behind it.
Second, according to one estimate in early 2003, 21% of manufacturing capacity lay unused after the investment splurge of the mid-1990s.
Speaking in September, JLR chief executive, Ralf Speth, said the firm's immediate manufacturing ambitions lie outside the UK, saying the firm needs to "go where the markets are".
Years of manufacturing waste lie buried in the riverbed, and the Deep Tunnel, a massive waste-water-removal project initiated in the 1970s, occasionally overflows during heavy rains, dumping polluted water into the river.
When he wasn't political firefighting last week, Brown was out with Lord Mandelson making the case for a new industrial strategy, providing state support for research in hi-tech manufacturing to lay the foundations for a better-balanced economy.
The price of copper, for example, is 25% higher in India than in China.If the report is right that the roots of Chinese manufacturing superiority lie in the fiscal and legal framework, that might worsen Indian industry's sense of inadequacy.
It is hoped that the developed technology for collaborative product manufacturing will lay a frontier basis for further research and development in product lifecycle management.
