He also says the United States and other Western nations too quickly abandoned manufacturing that formed the backbone of their economies.
And yet, as Bird quickly discovers, manufacturing this kind of outrage is a distinct challenge: "It was hard, really, to put any kind of definite face on China.
This requires the development of either efficient energy storage systems, e.g. battery technology, compressed air storage etc. or through the creation of demand side management units which can utilise power quickly for manufacturing operations.
Several other generic drug makers would not specify how much they could make but said they could begin manufacturing quickly.
When the supply of these ran out, which it soon did, the finance industry quickly set about manufacturing new forms of AAA-rated securities such as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) that bundled inferior assets together, sliced up the risks associated with them and packed them into different tranches so that losses would first hit those holding the riskiest slices.
Moreover, the designs could easily be changed without Burton incurring high retooling costs.Predicting how quickly additive manufacturing will be taken up by industry is difficult, adds Dr Hopkinson.
The agency has also worked with companies to help them fix manufacturing problems quickly.
Unlike most other European countries, the service sector's share of Finland's gross domestic product (GDP) and employment has not increased as quickly as that of manufacturing.
Technological developments in microbiology and genetics have provided new tools for creating vaccines and manufacturing them quickly and economically in huge quantities.
The priority data is then shuttled off into a program tailored to work on complex, fast-changing problems like tracking an epidemic and predicting its spread, or culling data from electronic sensors in a computer chip plant to quickly correct flaws in manufacturing.
