Quotes About Manufacturing

With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.

We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.

My priorities are to continue to fight for manufacturing in my state and for jobs and health care and deal with lead issues in my beloved city of Cleveland, where I live, and every other city in the industrial Midwest.

Our competitors outside Europe are manufacturing goods cheaper and better. Through innovation, other countries are producing new products which we do not make yet, but which we could.

America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.

Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

Developing the locally-run industry is very important in increasing the production of consumer goods.

Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

As the inventor of MyPillow, I have been a proponent of American-made products for decades.

I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.

A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.

It's more expensive for me to make my shoes. I don't use animal-based glues or fish-based glues. So that costs me more. And, you know, like anything in life - mass marketing of anything - mass manufacturing of anything costs less.

It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.

Factories are often at the heart of a community.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

The house is a factory.

China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.