In many ways, they resemble the mass-customization production processes that are enhancing manufacturing productivity by replacing cavernous, fragmented, and rigid assembly-line factories with coordinated and flexible team-based ones.
By the nineteen-eighties, manufacturing productivity had rebounded, and it has risen steadily ever since.
Unit labour costs, a contributor to manufacturing productivity, also fell across the board.
America led other rich countries in the rise in manufacturing productivity in 1999.
The company, based in Pittsburgh, plans to improve purchasing practices and manufacturing productivity and reduce administrative costs.
Molecular machinery will increase manufacturing productivity a millionfold, yet our national nanotechnology effort now excludes work toward this goal.
Year over year, manufacturing productivity was up 7.5percentt, its biggest increase on record, the Labor Department said.
Introduces process, philosophy and physics-based principles of design to improve/enable renewable power generation, energy efficiency, and manufacturing productivity.
Focused factories can transform health care in much the same way that mass-customization has enhanced manufacturing productivity.
Robotics has already had a dramatic impact on manufacturing productivity, and it could do the same in construction.
As a result, the division's entire perspective on the relationship between the engineering function and manufacturing productivity changed.
