Quotes About Manufacturing

My next thing could be something in hardware. It's never been easier to turn bits into atoms.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Only the United States of America deemed ice cream "an essential item for troop morale." And so it alone continued producing, ordering ice cream freezers on submarines, ice cream freezers on tankers, ice cream freezers on cargo ships. Over the course of the war, the United States military became the largest ice cream manufacturer in history.

When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.

Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

There is more money in designing a shoe than in actually making it: Nike, Dell, and Boeing can get paid for just thinking, organizing, and leveraging their know-how and ideas while subcontracted factories in developing countries do the grunt work and engineers in cultured and mathematical states do the noncreative technical grind

There is more money in designing a shoe than in actually making it: Nike

El proceso de fabricar cosas ha empezado a parecerse más al proceso de producción digital.

Variety is free: It costs no more to make every product different than to make them all the same. 2. Complexity is free: A minutely detailed product, with many fiddly little components, can be 3-D printed as cheaply as a plain block of plastic. The computer doesn't care how many calculations it has to do. 3. Flexibility is free: Changing a product after production has started just means changing the instruction code. The machines stay the same.

The natural model for music and anything else where the marginal costs of manufacturing and distribution are close to zero is variable pricing.

Otro aspecto esencial del código abierto es que los usuarios pueden fabricar los productos por sí mismos, si quieren; no necesitan pagar por ello. Lo cual es magnífico para el 0,1 por ciento del usuario básico, que muchas veces es la mejor fuente de ideas e innovaciones en torno al producto. Pero la realidad es que el otro 99,9 por ciento de usuarios más bien pagarían para que alguien se los fabricase si les garantizan que funcionarán. Éste es el

puede ser impreso en 3-D con el mismo coste que un simple bloque de plástico. Al ordenador no le importa cuántos cálculos ha de hacer. 3. La flexibilidad es gratuita. Para cambiar un producto una vez iniciada la producción, sólo se necesita cambiar el código de instrucciones. La máquina sigue siendo la misma.

The labor arbitrage view of global trade, a model that goes back to the dawn of the First Industrial Revolution, assumes that manufacturing will always flow to low-cost countries. But the new automation view suggests that the advantages of cheap labor are shrinking while other factors—closeness to the ultimate consumer, transportation costs (including possible carbon taxes), flexibility, quality, and reliability—are rising.

Wealth is no longer created by producing or manufacturing products. It is created by manipulating the prices of currencies, stocks, and commodities and imposing a crippling debt peonage on the public.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

1870, Britain produced 32 percent of all the manufactured goods in the world, followed by the United States at 23 percent and Germany at 13 percent.

Ryan nodded. He understood the phenomenon. "The money is in the dirt, it just has to be dug up or pumped up. The money isn't in innovation or intellectual property or in manufacturing. After a while, a nation loses its ability to innovate and to think and to build things.

British-made domestic goods, vehicles, tools or weapons had for long been highly prized on foreign markets. But in the course of the 1930s and 1940s British producers had so successfully undermined their own standing in almost every commodity save men's clothing that the only niche left to Britain's retail merchants by the 1960s was high profile, low quality 'trendy' fads