“When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.” LongLastsCompanyProductsEngineersManufacturingAccountingNew ProductsControllers Author:Chin-Ning Chu
“When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.” EndsPassionDecisionVisionRiskProductsHugeEconomicsMachinesCreatorManufacturingSamenessVending Machines Author:Steven Bochco
“History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.” WayYearsHas BeensProblemHandsInterestingKnowingGroupsMaterialsProductsHistoricalGlassesCustomersLabelsDiscussionTargetBottlesEmphasisManufacturingRaw MaterialsSpatsIconography Author:Neal Ascherson
“Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.” WantNeedsYearsMadeStoriesRememberValuesHateProductsIntegrityClothesI HateEndureDinnerGenuineSuitsBrandsLastingClothingsGrandfatherWornMy GrandfatherManufacturingDisposableTailorsEdinburgh Author:Patrick Grant
“Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing.” TogetherWinningSuccessfulDesignBuildingProductsMarketingAwardsSoftwareEngineeringPartnershipManufacturingMicrosoftSoftware EngineeringAward WinningNokia Author:Stephen Elop
“The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.” KnowsDifferencesProductsManagementDepartmentManufacturing Author:W. Edwards Deming
“By saying Make in India, we are not only inviting companies for cost-effective manufacturing, but also giving them an opportunity of a large market for their products.” GivingOpportunityCompanyProductsCostIndiaInnovationManufacturingInvitingMake In India Author:Narendra Modi
“As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents. Young, mobile elites can choose where they want to live, and they can easily move, which means that cities are involved in a heated competition for the best people. Only the most attractive cities can benefit from this development.” PeopleWantMeanIdeasMovingYoungLyingCitiesProductsDevelopmentIndustryInvolvedBenefitsCompetitionWesternEastAttractiveElitesMobileManufacturingPatentsMigrate Author:Charles Landry
“Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.” MadeJobsProductsChinaDrivingShopsExploitationNailsManufacturingCoffinsWorkforceMade In China Author:Joe Baca
“The principles and methods for improvement are the same for service as for manufacturing. The actual application differs, of course, from one product to another, and from one type of service to another.” CoursesPrinciplesProductsTypeMethodImprovementApplicationManufacturing Author:W. Edwards Deming
“People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.” PeopleKindUseProductsCostNormalTradeChainsGrantedGlobalizationManufacturingReductionSupply Chain Author:Christine Lagarde
“The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions.” BookGivenSimpleConditionsMediaProductsDrawsStructureSettingConclusionSettingsDescriptionConsentControversialManufacturing Author:Noam Chomsky