In addition, it has ordered the manufacture of two-door and four-door armor kits that can be fitted to the thin-skinned Humvees already in Iraq.
According to one of the articles, Huai'an students were ordered to manufacture cables for Apple's new iPhone 5, which is expected to be introduced on Wednesday.
He ordered the manufacture of vast quantities of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Edward Salk, so that when it was approved safe for distribution, Canadians could be quickly vaccinated.
"This is the best approach to providing for our soldiers," said the Pentagon, which has begun to produce more heavily armored Humvees and says it has ordered the manufacture of two-door and four-door armor kits that can be fitted to the Humvees already in Iraq.
It was Yamauchi who spotted talented engineer Gunpei Yokoi at one of the company's factories – Yokoi-san had built a robotic arm for his own amusement, but Yamauchi saw its potential as a product, ordered its manufacture and so kickstarted Nintendo's expansion into the toy and gadget market.
Instead, companies must make fundamental changes to the way they work — how they market and sell, handle orders, bill for those orders, manufacture and distribute their goods, and serve customers after the sale.
But when businesses need products finely tailored and delivered quickly and flexibly, then eastern Europe scores highly.In the garment industry, for example, foreign companies are doing a booming trade with east European countries in the business of "fast fashion"—ordered and manufactured in speedy response to sales trends.
I recently visited the Oakland, Calif., headquarters of GT Nexus, a company that monitors supply chain information — things like ordering, payment, manufacture and logistics — for 100 major companies.
It is also possible to order the manufacture of amateur designs on the Internet, or to make use of industrial cutting and finishing equipment at do-it-yourself clubs.
It's still a bit dreamlike to order and manufacture personalized objects sent from New York to Italy, but in the time that passed, little hacker, Maker, and fabrication ateliers are springing up in Italy like mushrooms.
