The fundamental model we teach MBAs for thinking about manufacturing is the value chain, a simple model that describes the value adding steps that take a low value material like iron ore and turn it into a high value product like a Ferrari Testarossa.
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The goal is to make sure all low-orbiting material is removed within 25 years of launch.
And since then, it has been plowing money into the business, taking advantage of low labor and material costs.
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In its design we took care that the test can cope with the challenges of forensic DNA analysis such as low amounts of material.
Asbestos has a lot of uses but I don't subscribe to the view that it is the only low-cost feasible material.
It is the process of moving water from an area with a low concentration of dissolved material, such as salt, to a place with a high concentration, by passing through a membrane.
The result is a tough material that has a low coefficient of friction comparable to that of Teflon and is highly resistant to abrasion.
The material gives off relatively low levels of radiation, but can be dangerous if ingested, inhaled in dust or if it enters the body through cuts or wounds.
And as much as Tim Cook has said he does not like AMOLED displays, that might indeed be the best material for these flexible, low-energy screens.
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Up north in the tar sands, many projects are being postponed, as the credit crunch adds to the woes caused by low oil prices and high labour and material costs.
The suit is made of fire retardant material capable of withstanding temperatures as low as -90 degrees Farenheit.
He likened the material produced through the EDI to low-budget, independent movies.
"The results show buyers are placing a premium on the very best material often due to its relatively low availability, " said Rics spokesman Andrew Davies.
Citi's Benson believes the German company Wacker Chemie should be least affected by the feed-in tariffs because of its low-cost position in polysilicon, a material used to make solar panels.
The United States and other leading nations have been negotiating with Iran to send low-enriched uranium abroad to be turned into material for use in medical research and treatment at a reactor in Tehran.
Corporate clients might be harder to come by but would probably be drawn from sectors that deal with material sciences, particularly engineering or metallurgy, where a low-gravity environment would make possible types of research and production that are impossible or prohibitively expensive on Earth.
With the increasing availability of low cost technologies for both production and post-production, this training material will help to fulfil a vital need for the democratization of the non-print media.
The top 25 local wireless markets, served by all the major carriers along with smaller wireless companies eager to buy market share with low prices, are already so competitive that the merger would have little material effect.
If a source has low power density, then it will likely require too much real estate, material or space to provide the power that we demand at prices we can afford or in the vast quantities that the world needs.
Similarly, advertising faces some of the same pressures from the amafessionals, as low-cost programs give consumers an increasing ability to turn out professional-looking material at costs a fraction of what they were.
The bills' polymer material was exposed to temperatures as high as 284 degrees Fahrenheit and as low as minus-103 degrees in the central bank's laboratories and in a series of independent labs, according to Martine Warren, chemist and scientific adviser at the Bank of Canada.
In recent tests at the company's Advanced Technology Centre in Bristol, a special liquid has been used to construct a material that is thinner than normal body armour and yet is able to stop a low-velocity bullet.
The Metal Building Material Business segment provides housing window sashes, building sashes, store facades, sashes for low-to-medium rise buildings, entranceway doors, various types of shutters, curtain walls, gates, carports, banisters, tide barriers, and smoke insulated screens.
Made of a material known as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), this belt produces an electric charge whenever low-speed airflow passes over it and causes it to vibrate -- a result of that vaunted piezoelectric effect.
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Nobody made buffalo-hide shoes, and there was a ready supply of raw material: Ranchers slaughtered about 14, 000 bison each year to meet the growing demand for low-cholesterol meat.
Though it has been estimated that in Earth's early history only a few percent of comets or asteroids arrived at low enough angles, the bombardment would have been heavy enough to deliver a significant amount of intact organic material and water, Blank said.
Relatively low contamination levels in western Japan could be explained by mountain ranges sheltering those regions from the dispersal of radioactive material, the authors said.
Using mainframe computers and low-wage workers in Korea, he rekeyboarded the contents of 70 years of Readers Guides and reorganized the material alphabetically rather than chronologically.
Though he wrote most of "The Low Highway" on tour or in New Orleans, where he was shooting "Treme, " he picks up material everywhere.
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