Lifetime employment once made sense, says Mr Murayama, because the company's strength lay in production engineering, and the ability to innovate through small engineering improvements requires a good deal of experience.
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press both reported Friday that GM is moving the engineers -- who have been working on the fuel-cell technology in the company's advanced development laboratories division -- to the company's core production engineering division, which designs vehicles to be brought into production.
Boeing's chairman, Phil Condit, says that Boeing tried to accelerate its production too fast, without changing a production-engineering system that had barely altered since the second world war.
According to the Washington Examiner, major engineering and production arrangements for weight reductions and downsizing will need to commence immediately.
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The sheer size of the endeavor presents severe engineering and production challenges.
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The company said it will put more people in frontline engineering and production, and fewer in support roles, in order to be more competitive.
Once he has the engineering and production down, Babar plans to ask the government, or an agency like the Asian Development Bank, to cover the upfront costs of large-scale production.
Navistar said it might have an opportunity to bid on a production contract once the engineering phase is complete, but said it still thinks its Saratoga JLTV, based on existing commercial trucks, is a cost-effective solution.
Roku will use the new capital to build further brand awareness through advertising, develop new international markets, and increase engineering and production to support sales growth of both hardware and digital media services on the platform including advertising, games, transactional and pay-per-view video as well as content packages.
Research ranges from the pursuit of advanced new polymers as covering for cables, to engineering that makes production systems cheaper.
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For instance, the plan calls for spending several years researching a new heavy lift launch vehicle for deep space exploration before committing to a design a stretched-out schedule that would likely produce little new technology but deprive engineering teams and production workers of anything to do for the better part of a decade.
Medis is also working with Flextronics to manufacture power converters and with Eastman Kodak on design engineering for the fuel production line.
Medis is also working with Flextronics (nasdaq: FLEX - news - people ) to manufacture power converters and with Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ) on design engineering for the fuel production line.
America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.
Moreover, both companies intend to set up engineering centers at Soviet chemical production facilities that will provide servicing support, training and assistance in adaptation of the controls to other industrial uses.
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Intel has spent the past two years proving its silicon photonics technology was production-worthy, and has now produced engineering samples.
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Koch tends to invest in industries that convert raw materials into higher-value products, with complicated operations that require a lot of engineering talent and constant innovation in production methods.
He missed the nuances about genetic engineering applied to agriculture and food production and as is his wont, devoted ample ink to the anti-biotech crowd, including the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology (which Pollack described only as a "nonprofit group, " although "doctrinaire anti-biotechnology lobbyists" would have been more accurate) and the radical, notoriously mendacious Friends of the Earth.
He also served on the board of directors of the Monte Vista Production Credit Union and on the board of Agro Engineering, Inc.
It currently provides a 9% tax deduction from net income for businesses engaged in "qualified production activities" in the U.S. Those activities include manufacturing a product, selling, leasing or licensing it, and engineering and software activities related to that production.
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Before wasting another dime on green engineering, policymakers need to free up domestic production of stand-alone proven energies capable of creating continual employment and wealth.
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Engineering samples will be available next month with volume production scheduled to commence in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Other researchers point to bio-engineering as a potentially vital solution to the food production challenges posed by a growing world population.
Over the last two decades, engineering and chemical breakthroughs have produced significant energy gains in ethanol production.
And as the global hero Norman Borlaug has shown, genetic engineering and biotech can even do exactly this for denser food production.
But oil companies are likely to invest less in boosting production if they are forced to divert billions of dollars toward reverse-engineering a smaller pipeline.
His latest production also takes over the deep, dark basements of Kings College's engineering department, which is next door to Somerset House.
Others are engineering careers tied to research in renewable technologies like wind energy and ethanol production.
Unlike most semiconductor executives, who often start in engineering or technology marketing, Mr. Appleton began at Micron as a production worker in 1983.
"We continue to look for opportunities to localize production and build where we sell, " said Rick Hesterberg, spokesman for Toyota Engineering and Manufacturing, in a statement Wednesday.
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