Quotes About Manufacturing

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

We can't defend Japan, a behemoth, selling us cars by the million.

[We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.

When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.

German businesses

Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz—industrial uses. Do you see? No consumers' commodities.

The two pillars of the Toyota production system are just-in-time and automation with a human touch, or autonomation.

Standing to one side watching the politicians and the journalists and the cameras is one of the factory's owners, John Kernahan, who tells me Sulo's annual turnover is $85 million. So the carbon tax? "It's not a biggie.

An automobile piston should be round; but this phrase means nothing unless there is a way to measure the roundness of a particular piston.

The best-performing firms make a narrow range of products very well. The best firms' products also use up to 50 percent fewer parts than those made by their less successful rivals. Fewer parts means a faster, simpler (and usually cheaper) manufacturing process. Fewer parts means less to go wrong; quality comes built in. And although the best companies need fewer workers to look after quality control, they also have fewer defects and generate less waste.

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

Our hearts are, in Calvin's vivid image, factories that mass-produce idols.

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Portland, Maine, is more like a big town than a booming metropolis. It was built around fishing, turned to manufacturing, but then eventually became one of those cities that you don't really know why it exists other than to take care of itself. The population was only around sixty thousand, but that still made it the biggest city in Maine.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

We are fed up with complaints that Mexico is stealing jobs from U.S. manufacturing. We are part of the solution that has maintained competitiveness for the U.S. versus China.

No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

I don't like stuff that can only go into one set; I want stuff that can be applied across sets. It's a more real Lego building experience. And, of course, it's the same from a manufacturing point of view. I want elements that are universal; that gives me the best economics and best utilisation of the mould.

As manufactured products have become increasingly commoditylike, and therefore less valuable to customers, GE has not been alone in discovering that often more money can be made from the services related to a product

As long as management is quick to take credit for a firm's successes but equally swift to blame its workers for its failures, no surefire remedy for low productivity can be expected in American manufacturing and service industries.

You can't build quality by inspection, but when the quality is not there, the inspection may be the only answer.

We were put on this earth to make things.

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.