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Quotes About Manufacturing

There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can't replicate.
~ Charles Duhigg
It sounds to me like the OLED iPhone is a phone which Apple can't make 40 million of per quarter, at least not today. And if that's true, that means it should be more expensive. Not 'should' in any moral sense, but simply because that's how the principle of supply and demand works.
~ John Gruber
The supply chain is not just the movement of finished goods, but it is also of materials and parts used within the manufacturing process. And so it effects producers and manufacturers and obviously consumers alike.
~ Raphael Warnock
One of the goals of the Trump administration is to reclaim all of the supply chain and manufacturing capability that would otherwise exist if the playing field were level.
~ Peter Navarro
I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.
~ John L. Flannery
With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.
~ Ren Ng
On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.
~ Hobart Alter
If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
~ William Gibson
how unordered atoms could group themselves into ever more complex patterns until they ended up manufacturing people.
~ Richard Dawkins
They're limited edition,' she said. 'Listen,' I said 'they're not limited enough. These shouldn't have been made at all.
~ Karl Pilkington
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.
~ John Ruskin
NAFTA stripped us of manufacturing jobs. We lost our jobs. We lost our money. We lost our plants. It is a disaster.
~ Donald Trump
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money
~ James Dyson
I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
~ Howard Rheingold
the splendid future of an Independent South." "Stimulate domestic manufacturing & local commerce," said Davis. Thus Charleston and New Orleans would vie with Boston and New York as commercial centers. Though Davis was only reiterating his oft-expressed wish for economic
~ William C. Davis
the market prices of quasi-commodities are not related to the costs in their own manufacturing area, but to the cost structure of the lower-cost competitors and their willingness to operate at certain margin levels.
~ William H. Davidow
Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
~ William J. Clinton
The great expanding centre of 'inner Britain', London, did not build ships but it built aeroplanes, it did not mine coal but it made electrical equipment, it did not grow food but it did process it – into beer, refined sugar, Horlicks and Mars bars. It made tyres, Hoovers, films.
~ David Edgerton
Toyota would be credited for its just-in-time theory of manufacturing, in which parts arrived from suppliers just in time to be part of the final assembly. But in any real sense that process began at the Rouge. Toasting Philip Caldwell, the head of Ford who in 1982 was visiting Japan, Eiji Toyoda, of the Toyota company, said, "There is no secret to how we learned to do what we do, Mr. Caldwell. We learned it at the Rouge.
~ David Halberstam
for one measure of economic power was the ownership of sports teams—the Tigers had been owned by the Briggses, an old manufacturing family for whom the baseball park had been named, and the football team by William Clay Ford, Henry's brother—and in the early eighties the two newest owners, of the Tigers and the hockey Redwings, were pizza franchisers.
~ David Halberstam
Drum-Buffer-Rope pull system
~ David J. Anderson
If you believe there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that's dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
~ Lenny Bruce
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
~ Hermann Goring