Sentences with phrase «reduce the manufacturing cost of»

What Freescale Semiconductors are up to is that they are in the process of producing samples of a new chip that will take over the functionality of all chips in an E-Reader under one, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost of the e-reader.

While the word cheap does not exist in Apple's vocabulary, a report from Digitimes indicates that the Cupertino - based tech giant could substantially reduce manufacturing costs of the upcoming device, thus allowing the firm to also cut the final price of the phone.

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Molds are also expensive to create, so the fewer parts reduces the number of molds needed and therefore the lower the manufacturing costs.

This saves money on material costs by reducing the number of parts needed tenfold or more, and also saves time from design to manufacturing, allowing objects to be produced in small batches in a cost - effective way.

Finally, Ikea manufactures its furniture in developing countries outside of Sweden to reduce costs even further.

Other companies, like Los Angeles - based Rayton Solar, are trying to lower costs by drastically reducing the amount of silicon required to manufacture the panels.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Their commitment to domestic manufacturing is more than feel - good philosophy — the company's wares are big and bulky (read: expensive to ship), and, since 95 % of its business is in North America, the reduced logistics expenses of local production offset any premiums on labour costs.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

In cooperation with strategic battery manufacturing partners, we're planning to build a large scale factory that will allow us to achieve economies of scale and minimize costs through innovative manufacturing, reduction of logistics waste, optimization of co-located processes and reduced overhead.

Although manufacturing overcapacity is certainly a problem, much of it is in areas in which global demand has simply collapsed, and isn't coming back, and so a cheaper currency would have little impact beyond temporarily reducing excess inventory, which is not enough of a benefit to justify the many costs of a weaker currency.

So, that reduces our costs in terms of manufacturing those vehicles.»

If we are unable to reduce and / or maintain a sufficiently low level of costs for designing, manufacturing, marketing, selling and distributing and servicing our electric vehicles relative to their selling prices, our operating results, gross margins, business and prospects could be materially and adversely impacted.

Without it, the company will have trouble securing enough battery supply to make hundreds of thousands of EVs (which they plan to do for the upcoming, more affordable Model 3, to be unveiled in March 2016), and it will have trouble reducing its prices enough to attract Mr. and Mrs. Everybody (the Gigafactory is expected to slash costs by at least 30 % through economies of scale and high - tech manufacturing).

Nearly half of the cuts would be in sales and marketing — through incentive optimization, reduced advertising and other actions — with the rest coming from engineering and product development, material costs, manufacturing and information technology, in that order.

This style of «nontariff barrier» — a protectionist stratagem the U.S. has long condemned in other countries — is designed to reduce the relative cost of cars manufactured in the U.S., by American workers, the officials said.

To reduce labor costs, Ford had planned to build a small car manufacturing plant in Mexico and move those operations out of the U.S. but scrapped the project.

«We have special metal forming equipment and we own a lot of our equipment, which helps reduce the cost of manufacturing,» Martin adds.

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers manufactures an extensive mix of adhesive, barrier, peelable lidding and sealant resins and provides a globally networked development team to work with customers on packaging programs that help protect the product, environment, improve shelf appeal, convenience and reduce cost in the food, cosmetics, medical products, industrial packaging and other consumer goods industries.

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers manufactures an extensive mix of adhesive, peelable lidding and sealant resins and provides a globally networked development team to work with customers on packaging programs that help protect the product, the environment, improve shelf appeal, convenience and reduce cost in the food, cosmetics, medical products and other consumer goods and industrial packaging industries.

Their sponsor, DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, manufactures an extensive mix of adhesive, barrier, peelable lidding and sealant resins and provides a globally networked development team to work with customers on packaging programs that help protect the product, environment, improve shelf appeal, convenience and reduce cost in the food, cosmetics, medical products and other consumer goods and industrial packaging industries.

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers manufactures an extensive mix of adhesive, barrier, peelable lidding and sealant resins and provides a globally networked development team to work with customers on packaging programs that help protect the product, environment; improve shelf appeal, convenience; and reduce cost in the food, cosmetics, medical products and other consumer goods and industrial packaging industries.

A senior administration official said the idea is to create large pockets of opportunity for wind developers so they can reduce costs through economies of scale, and through state investments in workforce training, manufacturing and electric infrastructure.

He also hinted that DOE could launch a new manufacturing innovation institute that would help to further reduce the cost of fuel cells.

The ability to produce graphene without the need for active heating not only reduces manufacturing costs, but also results in a better product because fewer defects — introduced as a result of thermal expansion and contraction processes — are generated.

The new perovskite solar cells have achieved an efficiency of 20.1 per cent and can be manufactured at low temperatures, which reduces the cost and expands the number of possible applications.

«Economies of scale have greatly reduced the cost of silicon manufacturing,» said Professor Ted Sargent, an expert in emerging solar technologies and the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology.

To reduce the cost of manufacturing, the researchers used inkjet printing to synthesize DNA directly onto a plastic chip.

Reformulating pharmaceuticals in this way could give some drugs a longer shelf life, eliminate the need for refrigeration for others, simplify some manufacturing processes, possibly reduce costs and provide patients with a pill form of a drug they could take easier than a liquid.

That is why a team of engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, developed and proved out a new additive manufacturing technique for nozzle fabrication that can greatly reduce costs and development time.

PRISM has a number of benefits for managing plutonium — including reduced time to disposition the UK stockpile due to greater incorporation of plutonium in the fuel, and a simplified fuel manufacturing and reactor construction process — all of which reduce the costs of implementation.

ULTRA seeks to reduce facility - related costs by combining a small physical footprint with reduced operational costs enabled by an integrated automation of the manufacturing process, to minimize labor costs and failure rates.

The use of human embryonic stem cells, as opposed to patient blood, as the starting material for AST - VAC2 provides a scalable system for the production of a large number of vaccine doses in a single lot, reducing manufacturing costs, enabling «off - the - shelf» availability, and ensuring product consistency.

The researchers used water to reduce the cost of manufacturing.

[55] In some botanical products, undeclared ingredients were used to increase the bulk of the product and reduce its cost of manufacturing, while potentially violating certain religious and / or cultural limitations on consuming animal ingredients, such as cow, buffalo or deer.

The reason why the studs are lighter is because they are made of a cheaper material to reduce the manufacturing costs.

Simplified manufacturing was one initiative among many that reduced Ford's operating costs by $ 4.3 billion during 1997 and the first six months of 1998, said Lloyd Hansen, controller of Ford's marketing and sales operations.

The strong profitability of the domestic automakers has been linked to lower manufacturing costs, a reduced debt load and careful...

For a cynical viewpoint, it might be that the motivation of the automakers with this and similar concepts (e.g. VW dual charging) is not fuel saving via down - sizing, but rather to reduce manufacturing and R&D costs by being able to use a single engine design for many different engines.

The Standard Paperback formats are printed using state of the air ink jet technology that significantly reduces manufacturing costs.

Samsung Display, a display manufacturing subsidiary of Samsung, represents a staggering 99 percent of the AMOLED smartphone display panel market, and it is increasing its competitiveness by reducing the manufacturing cost and stabilizing the manufacturing process.

The other feature of Pixel Qi's system that's likely to boost its chances and reduce costs is that it can be manufactured using existing LCD manufacturing equipment and processes.

The company has been closing down plants, reducing the size of its workforce, and improving manufacturing processes to lower its costs.

«As technology and science advance, we are not only finding safer ways to manufacture products, but we are reducing the cost of these eco-friendly processes,» says Brian Collier, creative marketing and public relations coordinator for Tropiclean.

Sophisticated Software Software development is expensive, and in an effort to reduce manufacturing costs, some therapy laser companies have replaced the push - button interface with a series of knobs that are turned to set treatment parameters.

Global Harvest currently operates from eight facilities nationwide, and the addition of these manufacturing plants supplements Global Harvest's national footprint, giving the company new regional service capabilities that benefits retailers with lower ingredient and reduced freight costs, quicker fulfillment times and increased inventory turnover.

Sony engineers are working to reduce the cost of manufacturing the PS Vita so it can cut the price of the handheld - but that price cut won't happen this year.

The case for the PlayStation 5 also boils down to simple economics: it's well documented that the longer a console can persist on the high - street shelves, the more profitable it becomes over time, as economies of scale reduce manufacturing costs, while a large install base means publishers can sell more copies of their latest games.

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

I have a couple of detail points / questions: It's not obvious why a 2.5 million manufacturing number would drive the price down much further, even if the cost gets slightly reduced, given the buying market already would see a $ 20,000 price reduction — which should pretty much reach your goals it would seem.