Capital depreciation can account for 50-80% of manufacturing cost in this kind of plant.
This is driven in part by low manufacturing cost of razors and blades sold.
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The manufacturer may double its manufacturing cost in arriving at a wholesale price to the distributor.
Pfizer hasn't revealed its manufacturing cost, but it is probably from 40 to 80 cents a pill.
In spite of its high efficiency panels, SunPower has come under serious criticism for high manufacturing cost.
Gas accounts for 26% of Wheeling-Pittsburgh's energy usage and perhaps 15% of the manufacturing cost in its integrated steel mills.
Problem is, predictably, design and manufacturing cost a lot of money.
With Wii U, we have taken a rather resolute stance in pricing it below its manufacturing cost, so we are not planning to perform a markdown.
Soles4Souls controller Tim Deats, a former shoe-industry manager, told Forbes his charity values gifts at estimated manufacturing cost, a low figure since most shoes are imported from China.
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To get an idea of this potential reduction in value, an increase of just 5% to our base manufacturing cost forecast can reduce our SunPower stock price estimate by almost 15%.
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Although several drug companies have agreed to supply the drugs to African countries at manufacturing cost (the price in the rich world factors in development costs as well), that is still beyond the purse of any but the middle classes in Africa.
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The firm has also focused on expanding manufacturing capacity in low cost manufacturing locations.
Moreover, as a result of China's efforts to move up the value chain in manufacturing so as to cope with its aging population, lower-cost manufacturing is migrating from China's coastal areas inland but also to countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
What began as an outsourcing of manufacturing to low cost countries has evolved as China and India have moved up the value-added manufacturing curve.
Every manufacturing-input cost rose, from electricity to petroleum (for plastics) to metals to wages.
Why is outsourcing manufacturing not as cost effective as it used to be especially for smaller companies and startups?
But it's an expensive way to operate, and if low-cost manufacturing arrives--watch out.
"The first was when low cost manufacturing shifted from the west to China, Malaysia and so on, " he explains.
Ironically, decision makers in the U.S. have failed to appreciate the obvious fact that America cannot compete with China on low-cost manufacturing.
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But manufacturing at low cost in ambient conditions is not so easy.
To maintain its technological edge and high profit margins, however, it must balance low-cost manufacturing abroad with the high-tech precision it achieves in Japan.
Meanwhile, countries that focused on lower-cost manufacturing notably Spain and Portugal developed vast trade deficits, in large part because they couldn't cut wages fast enough to compete.
What should be the future strategy for multinational firms trying to take in this Chinese wave of raw materials imports and low-cost manufacturing and sourcing in Africa?
Nick Reilly, who heads GM's international operations, says that part of the answer is to adopt low-cost manufacturing techniques and not to load cheap cars with unnecessary technology.
Nations like Cambodia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, China and Bangladesh (just to name a few) have risen up and provided real supply to meet real demand for lower-cost manufacturing.
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Monday's incident is not the first mechanical problem for the 787 series, which was delivered to airlines starting in 2011 after years of manufacturing delays and cost overruns.
More and more younger workers are no longer willing to work for low wages in blue collar positions, and the high costs of real estate are pricing low-cost manufacturing out of China.
Goldwind, Coda, and the Thermal Power Research Institute are hybrids of Western design and Chinese production, and no nation has yet mastered both the invention and the low-cost manufacturing of clean technology.
Some safety experts are concerned, but not alarmed, about the mechanical setbacks with the Dreamliner since its delivery to airlines beginning in 2011, following years of manufacturing delays and cost overruns.
First Solar, long the king of low-cost manufacturing, decided to gradually shut down its big factory in Germany and put on hold its plans to build new factories in Vietnam and Arizona.
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