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The CEO of General Motors, Rick Wagoner, says that, when it comes to the large -
scale manufacture of electric vehicles, GM will ultimately beat out the dozens of electric - vehicle startups that have recently started racing to sell green cars.
To develop criteria, procedures and protocols for reproducible, safe and large -
scale manufacture of stem cells and their progeny to clinical grade standard;
«Flip - flop qubits: Radical new quantum computing design invented: Radical new architecture for quantum computing, based on novel «flip - flop qubits,» promises to make the large -
scale manufacture of quantum chips dramatically cheaper and easier.»
Engineers at Australia's University of New South Wales have invented a radical new architecture for quantum computing, based on novel «flip - flop qubits», that promises to make the large -
scale manufacture of quantum chips dramatically cheaper — and easier — than thought possible.
This top - down approach to making graphene is quite different from previous works by Tour's lab, which pioneered the small -
scale manufacture of the atom - thick material from common carbon sources, even Girl Scout cookies, and learned to split multiwalled nanotubes into useful graphene nanoribbons.
A leader in the emerging field of synthetic biology, Amyris is well known for developing a strain of yeast for large -
scale manufacture of a precursor to the antimalarial drug artemisinin, for which the Asian plant source is in short supply.
The Energy Department's Vehicle Technologies Office has estimated that large -
scale manufacture of electric vehicle batteries with today's lithium - ion technology costs about $ 800 per kilowatt - hour of energy.
Since large -
scale manufacturing of plastics took off in the 1950s and until 2015, humans have produced approximately 9 billion tons of plastic.
Associate Professor Joseph Change, who headed the NTU research group, said their novel printing approach has now made large
scale manufacturing of cheap disposable electronic circuits an attainable feat.
Conducted product feasibility design to pilot and large -
scale manufacturing of following products for in vitro diagnostic quantitative determination resulting in final delivery of products as scheduled:
Because of the city's location and culture, its main industries are tourism; entertainment; oil / gas and related industries; large
scale manufacturing of ships, boats, and airplanes; and of course, its port which is one of the country's largest and busiest.
Not exact matches
«They have economies
of scale, and fantastic
manufacturing and distribution.»
On a
scale of 1 - 7, we averaged 4.8 — a score he says is typical
of employees in the troubled
manufacturing industry, but that's rare among knowledge - based workers.
On a
scale out
of seven, the magazine staff rated 4.8, meaning we're about as happy as employees in the ever - downtrodden
manufacturing sector and significantly less happy than the normal knowledge - based worker.
«It's a challenge to get from the academic lab into a full -
scale manufacturing process, so we'd like to be that facilitator
of technology in the control - release space,» Flynn says.
«It's very hard to operate any
manufacturing company, and then it's very hard to
scale in a very fast time,» Raider adds, explaining that some
of the toughest times for the startup have been when it grew faster than expected and had to restrain itself to keep up with capacity.
Because it costs the same to 3 - D print 1,000
of the same product as it does 1,000
of different products
of the same size and material, the new
manufacturing technique eliminates economies
of scale.
The high stakes require startups to burn through their budget with a very small margin
of error, making
manufacturing at
scale even harder.
While part
of the team is working this out, another is investigating how to
manufacture the material on an industrial
scale, something else that has yet to be fully developed.
The new chips are
manufactured at a
scale of 12 nanometers, down from 14 nm for last year's Ryzen line, which should make them more energy efficient and higher performing.
Patagonia invests heavily in new
manufacturing and sourcing processes, many
of which don't make fiscal sense if they can't
scale — which means that others must join to make them work.
3D printing, or additive
manufacturing, has been used for making prototypes across a range
of different industries for many years, but is being increasingly eyed for
scale production.
AMD was also able to move
manufacturing of the chip at partner GlobalFoundries from a 14 - nanometer
scale to a 12 - nanometer
scale, allowing for higher clock speeds and better energy consumption.
Tesla claims the Gigafactory would help the company dramatically cut the cost
of its batteries once it's fully operational by «using economies
of scale, innovative
manufacturing, reduction
of waste, and the simple optimization
of locating most
manufacturing process under one roof.»
On its
scale of one to seven, we averaged 4.8: A score Moss says is typical
of employees in the troubled
manufacturing industry.
Lynwood will become «one
of the first large -
scale cultivation and
manufacturing opportunities in L.A. County,» Aaron Herzberg, who helps marijuana businesses find real estate through his company CalCann Holdings, told L.A. Weekly.
Applying the lower
of these two weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive
manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to generate an estimate
of the potential
scale of economic loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.
While the industry did initially suffer from the global downturn, the
scale of the decline was greatly mitigated by long lead times in aircraft
manufacturing.
In terms
of the large -
scale, mass - produced economy, the utility
of low - skill human workers is rapidly diminishing, as many blue - collar jobs (e.g., in
manufacturing) and white - collar jobs (e.g., processing insurance paperwork) can be handled much more cheaply by automated systems.
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.
Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk could have avoided some serious production headaches this spring had he registered the cautionary tale
of GM's disastrous experimentation with robotics in the 1980s — and not tried to hot - wire the necessarily rigid protocols
of large -
scale auto
manufacturing with Silicon Valley's quicksilver creative process, writes Arstechnica.
The breakdown
of traditional marketing and the rise
of capital efficient contract
manufacturing enables entrepreneurs to compete on a
scale they never could before.
All new industries go through a process
of discovery and invention followed by
manufacturing knowledge and economies
of scale.
One
of our favorite ways to measure growth, whether on a macro
scale or in individual markets, is by using the
manufacturing purchasing manager's index (PMI).
The days
of the large -
scale manufacturing plant are coming to an end.
In September, the company announced new patents — including one for machine learning - based analysis
of plants for potential products — that will help it
manufacture this clean meat at
scale.
During the year ended December 31, 2008, we had a gross loss
of $ 1.1 million due to the lower pricing for our initial vehicles, the high materials and
manufacturing costs associated with our first generation Tesla Roadster and limited economies
of scale from low vehicle production volumes.
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).
«This is a rocket
of truly huge
scale,» said Space X president Elon Musk, who also founded PayPal and
manufactures electric sports cars.
Now I know the companies manage to find some good, hungry vendors out there that will help make the product cheaper, but as soon as the economy turns around and that vendor then gets a chance to reprice the
manufacturing of it, you find yourself in trouble because now you've already priced your product low to take advantage
of scale of that product.
It has built a massive battery plant in Nevada it calls a Gigafactory and plans to build several more
of these glob - ally in the next few years, thinking that massive
manufacturing economies
of scale will drive costs down.
Economies
of scale play an important role in industries where producers
manufacture large quantities
of small products, such as with pharmaceuticals.
Lower costs can be achieved through technological innovation and through economies
of scale — a product is less costly to
manufacture in large quantities.
In a number
of countries (Singapore, Brazil, Hong Kong) the introduction
of computer - aided
manufacturing (CAM) technologies in small -
scale industries has been very successful.
Bettcher develops its products in a full -
scale manufacturing plant with state -
of - the - art
manufacturing equipment in Ohio and through Gainco Inc., a subsidiary in Gainesville, Ga..
In Mexico, Minebea Intec will offer an extensive range
of weighing and inspection products, solutions and services for diverse
manufacturing processes — from goods in to goods out, including platform
scales, vessel and silo
scales (load cells), checkweighers and equipment for detecting foreign objects (metal detectors and x-ray inspection systems), as well as software solutions for statistical process control and formulation applications.
«We have a vertically integrated
manufacturing process that creates economy
of scale in our operations,» Leffler says.
«At the end
of the day, you have to be able to
manufacture the product and
scale it up,» Alvear says.
B&P Littleford designs and
manufactures a wide spectrum
of mixers, dryers, extruders, compounders, kneaders, reaction vessels, Podbielniak Centrifuges, and centrifugal separation equipment for large or small
scale manufacturing applications.