Many factors go into the cost of producing a product, and in the past many companies became enamored with the cheap prices they could have parts and components produced, completely ignoring the total cost calculation.
The SIM card ejector tool in some North American first-generation iPads was made of Liquidmetal, and since then, Keller said, it's been used in a number of other internal parts and small mechanical components.
We got very good at understanding the parts and optimizing the components.
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The share of parts and components in its imports is, however, falling.
Further, by creating global vehicle platforms, Ford maximizes the use of as many shared parts and components across as many lines as possible to lower overall costs.
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This means that a greater share of Asian trade 32% of exports from Asia's developing economies in 2007, up from 13% in 1992 is now made up of trade in parts and components.
The relaxation of rules on the origins of cars is to ease the concerns of major foreign investors manufacturing cars in Korea, considering their heavy dependence on foreign parts and components.
The draft treaty does not control the domestic use of weapons in any country, but it would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms, parts and components and to regulate arms brokers.
The next generation iPads are expected to be available in the next 3-4 months as makers in the supply chain have started delivering parts and components for the new tablets to OEM contractors while reducing those prepared for iPad 2, according to sources in the supply chain.
So when the 27-year-old director built a new office for his family companies -- Rathi Transpower and Polybond India, which make rubber components and water-pump parts -- executives got a meal allowance instead of a waitered room.
The company said that the surface paint on certain toys and parts made in China between January 2005 and April 2006 contain lead, affecting 26 components and 23 retailers.
There is still a chance for Welsh companies to supply components and parts to Jaguar Land Rover.
All the other parts are purchased and the critical components like the barrel and bolt and springs are all metal.
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Its components and parts help make German industry competitive.
In northern and central Mexico German companies turn out electrical components for Europe, Canadian firms assemble aircraft parts and factory after factory makes televisions, fridge-freezers and much else.
This means mixing and matching components so that the same engineering and parts can be combined like Lego to produce a wide range of different vehicles.
In the heyday of conglomerates, AVM had 15 divisions, making everything from auto parts and furniture to air-conditioning components.
The factories make components and assemble parts for car manufacturers.
The construction site consists of tidy stacks of flat-packed, prefabricated wall units, roof panels and other jumbo components trucked from Michigan and labeled and numbered like parts for a giant Ikea Akurum cabinet.
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The Italian contribution to Venus Express will chiefly consist of a series of spare parts for various spacecraft components and a financial contribution.
Although little known in the West until a spate of factory suicides in 2009 brought the company notoriety, Foxconn makes components, parts and assembles devices for many of the world's largest electronics companies including Hewlett-Packard Co.
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With more emotion than sense, electronic components, machine parts and even towels made far from Fukushima have required radiation checks or been turned back by Italy and China, among others.
When the Turkish authorities inspected the shipment, they did not find tractor parts but components to build weapons, bombs and possibly some radioactive material (this material is still under investigation).
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It found that not one of the 45 companies that are indigenous to Brazil, China, India, Russia and Taiwan use U.S. technology, parts, components or materials.
Parts of the traditional small enterprise sector and of the informal economy service particular components of the advanced sectors in a city.
Holding it in your hand, you can tell the Samsung phone's plastic parts are a bit cheaper than Apple's luxury glass-and-metal components.
The company numbers Boeing, Airbus and Lockheed Martin among its customers of propulsion-system components and aerostructures--such items as engine housings and fuselage parts.
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Analysts are also making the point that Japanese-made components remain integral parts of products being assembled in China, Vietnam, and elsewhere.
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Five-axis tools are used for the production of precision components in the aerospace industry, in making gas and diesel engines, automobile parts, and throughout the medical, textile, oil, glass, heavy industrial equipment and tool industries.
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