The first is to treat the semi-finished parts.
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First, the need to hold stocks of parts, partially finished and finished goods falls sharply: inventories at Dell have fallen from 31 days of parts at the end of the 1996 financial year to only six days today, says Paul Bell, who runs Dell's operations in Europe.
As my colleague Connie Guglielmo has noted, Apple actually buys some of the manufacturing gear used by some of the firms that make parts and finished goods for the company.
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To have a fully flexible finished product, both parts of the display have to be flexible - the optical frontplane and the backplane, where transistors are - as well as the device's battery, the outer shell, the touchscreen and other components.
First and foremost economics: China already is or will in time become that largest and fastest growing market for a range of Japanese exports, a key production base for its industrial companies, and a source of important imports, from finished goods, to parts, to primary materials and food.
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Workers have finished their last shift at the car parts factory TRW in Resolven, near Neath, which is closing.
Often, one or two people operate 1, 2, or 4 rapid prototyping machines and produce thousands of parts, test models, or finished products.
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The recklessness of that action sent shock waves through the boardrooms of every Japanese company that has come to rely upon China not just for raw materials, but for intermediate parts and, of course, for finished goods.
The ADB's economists find that trade in parts is much less sensitive to changes in the real exchange rate than trade in finished products.
Umasi, a collection of work by artist Wells Mason, blurs the line between sculpture and furniture, with man-made materials such as stainless steel and tempered glass colliding with organic (exquisitely finished woods) and even obviously salvaged materials (a telephone pole, recycled rubber, bicycle parts).
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In striking parallel to Michelangelo's unfinished sculptural works, there is a high degree of contrast between different parts of the sheet the body of the Child, which is so highly finished that it is impossible to even detect the artist's hand and the face and body of the Madonna, which is roughed out in the barest form of a sketch.
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