Most of the capital spending is on equipment that will improve production efficiency.
To compete in a globally connected world, companies must leverage technology and automation in order to gain production efficiency and repeatable quality.
Wright discovered that progress increases with experience: each percent increase in cumulative production in a given industry results in a fixed percentage improvement in production efficiency.
That production, efficiency, and reliability increased as a result of this change was anticipated, but was not the main reason that the companies changed their ways of doing business.
We believe in a strategy of more production, more efficiency, and more incentives for clean energy.
But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives.
Consuming the ethanol near the source of production would generate efficiency gains on both the exported ethanol and the imported oil.
Jason Yan, technical director in Beijing of the U.S. Grains Council, said safety considerations usually take a backseat in China to features designed to maximize production and energy efficiency.
As demand for energy increases worldwide, our Nation must continue to lead the world in a rapidly evolving energy market by pursuing safe and responsible domestic energy production, promoting efficiency, and developing clean energy and renewable fuels.
Higher production, capacity and efficiency "drove significant margin expansion" during the quarter, Chief Executive JifanGaoJifan Gao said.
Higher production, capacity and efficiency "drove significant margin expansion" during the quarter, Chief Executive Jifan Gao said.
Samaddar said that many other industries in Poland such as coal mining and transportation rely on healthy steel production and that cost efficiency is paramount.
At a Wednesday forum in Washington on electricity delivery, organized by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, a crowd of several hundred in a hotel ballroom mulled the big changes ahead when it comes to energy efficiency, production, transmission and regulation.
Digitization has lowered the cost and increased the efficiency of video production, resulting in a surge in the amount of content available as well as the hardware needed to support digital production, distribution and archiving.
First Solar executives are bullish about the cadmium telluride technology, naturally, and its chief technology officer, Raffi Garabedian, outlined a few of the big changes that the company will introduce to its production process to boost the efficiency.
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Best estimates of future global agricultural water consumption (including both rainfed and irrigated agriculture), are of an increase of about 19% by 2050, but this could be much higher if crop yields and the efficiency of agricultural production do not improve dramatically.
The company also made efficiency improvements in its production processes, which generally leads to lower overhead costs.
With whole ownership of S-LCD, Samsung anticipates heightened flexibility, speed and efficiency in both panel production and business operations.
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His not-for-profit organization, Carbon Manna Unlimited, has developed a system of direct micro-payments to rural people who offset their carbon production through the use of high-efficiency stoves.
But Beijing must realize that the best play is to become engaged in the negotiations and start lobbying sooner rather than later for more amenable provisions such as rules of origin that would not damage the efficiency of the East Asian production sharing network.
The company has established itself as a leader in deepwater exploration and production technology with among the highest safety and efficiency standards in the business.
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Clark, a Merck lifer who previously headed the company's manufacturing division, has focused initially on improving the efficiency of the company's production plants. (Under his plan, many of the job cuts will come from manufacturing, and five of Merck's 31 plants will be closed.) The goal, outlined on today's call, is to increase manufacturing efficiency, much as automakers like General Motors or computer makers like Dell have in the past.
Managers tout the Chery Production System, or CPS, which is modeled after the vaunted Toyota Production System, but the factory lacks the clockwork efficiency of a Toyota plant.
Managers tout the Chery Production System, or CPS, which is modeled after the vaunted Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) Production System, but the factory lacks the clockwork efficiency of a Toyota plant.
With paper-based systems you cannot have the types of efficiency we associate with Deming or the total production system.
As with any novel fuel production or energy storage method, it is the numbers that matter: efficiency is king.
Steitz and his team decided to consolidate production and shipping in a Los Angeles warehouse, which has dramatically improved efficiency, he says.
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It also aims to accelerate the development and production of new cars with a focus on better designs, fuel-efficiency, safety and value for customers with the latest launches.
The difficulty here is that drugmakers have often ignored manufacturing efficiency for a good reason: A slight change in the production process can occasionally result in a dangerous change in a medicine.
The report insists that, in hand with a combination of energy efficiency and fuel-switching measures, this growth in electricity production would be enough to supplant all fossil fuel use (coal, gas and oil), including that for transport and space-heating.
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