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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Tom Peters

We need to meet with (Roche). We need to see their manufacturing process.

Carol Cox

Digital manufacturing is most effectively used when it is incorporated into a broad enterprise PLM program.

John Mackrell

Biotech is a terrific industry, but it's not like having a big chip-manufacturing industry.

Paul Fassinger

They still expected manufacturing activity to expand, but not as much as it has in New York.

Richard Dietz

We are proud of our 40 year history in Australia and our commitment in the 1960s to begin manufacturing in Australia which we continue here today.

Marketing Manager

You should go for the gusto when you've got a biotech prospect, an advanced manufacturing prospect or an (existing corporation) expansion.

Bob Hess

This forward-looking index indicates broad optimism that the expansion of manufacturing activity will continue throughout the year.

Donald A. Norman

Some Asian companies are using Dubai as a logistics hub or a distribution center. We would like to see that grow to a full-fledged manufacturing center.

Arif Mubarak

It is vital that we continuously look closely at all of our manufacturing assets to ensure alignment with supply/demand balances now and those anticipated for the future.

Werner Breuers

Asia is the epicenter of sourcing and manufacturing. They have so many different types of suppliers.

Brent Thill

I think we?re going to be manufacturing a lot. I think we?re going to be a good hitting team eventually. These kids are really young.

John Bores

Today's manufacturing output figures were mediocre and disappointing overall.

David Kern

Orders were up in this business and we are continuing to step up manufacturing capacity for our security products.

Tim Guertin

This is a North Korean state policy to engage in the manufacturing and distribution of counterfeit U.S. notes.

Daniel Glaser

Locally, we have a higher concentration (of manufacturing jobs) than the rest of the nation. When there's a manufacturing downturn, we feel it.

John Slenker

The Kinston factory is our manufacturing hub for dishwashers, ... The combination of the factory and its background in producing fine dishwashers, and the workforce available there to build this super product, made us decide on Kinston.

Tony Evans

It ranges from housing interest to retail development interest to warehouse and manufacturing interest.

Gray Swoope

As we learned in Economics 101, a declining manufacturing sector is part of the normal process as an economy develops.

Matthew Ellis

Our engine and drive train manufacturing needs to grow in proportion with new assembly plants.

Steve Sturm

I expect growth to be around 7.7 percent in 2005/06. The main drivers will be services and manufacturing.

Saumitra Chaudhuri

It's hard to blame productivity growth for a lot of manufacturing job losses.

Martin Baily

Basically, costs associated with labor and manufacturing have caught up to us.

Patrick Rainey

It would actually re-emphasize the South as a new manufacturing area for automotive companies.

David Rumbarger

I am certainly worried about oil prices but not worried about indigenous manufacturing inflation which is under control.

Abheek Barua

(The numbers) tell us that manufacturing is in pretty good shape.

John Lonski

Another focus of the 2007 Quest redesign has been in the areas of quality, both manufacturing and perceived quality.

Brad Bradshaw

We are buying a special grade of metal for which there is limited manufacturing capacity and that capacity is full.

Tom Jessup

The concern we have is that there are a lot of companies that don't see it coming. This is a big elephant. It's coming right at the American manufacturer. Based on input from many sources, we are guessing 40 percent or more of the manufacturing industry doesn't get it.

John Donovan

What makes me more comfortable is that they've controlled some manufacturing costs and also brought marketing costs down.

Joe Blankenship

Tupelo would obviously be desirable for manufacturing in the life sciences field.

Mike Randle

It all comes at the same time, really. We're manufacturing runs and getting the big hits when we need them. We're also making the big defensive plays that were being made against us. By doing all of these things, we've been able to manufacture some runs.

Dave Randall

Computers have very tight profit margins, making it difficult to convince manufacturers to be more environmentally friendly in the manufacturing process.

Jim Lynch

This survey remains consistent with a booming manufacturing sector.

Richard Iley

This is the fourth consecutive monthly increase in manufacturing output and confirms that a manufacturing cyclical rebound is finally underway.

David Huether

The company simply must have more predictability and stability in the manufacturing of its products.

Jack Wright

If manufacturing is recovering [from] this drag on growth, which is already strong, it is probably going to raise some concerns at the Fed.

Harvinder Kalirai

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.

Debbie Stabenow

A rise in global demand, the relatively low cost of capital and a weaker rand have all helped lift manufacturing.

Michael Keenan

Look for manufacturing employment to continue to decline in the coming quarters -- a clear negative for overall employment quality.

Benjamin Tal

I am seriously looking at relocating my textile units to Bangladesh as the cost of manufacturing here is going beyond our control.

Shabbir Ahmed

It's like taxing Pepsi to build a Coke manufacturing plant.

Richard Broome

We are also planning to set up an outsourcing centre for computer aided manufacturing (CAM) related work for global firms, including leading contract manufacturers.

Anil Gupta

When do you ever see anyone moving manufacturing into the U.S. anymore?

Alan Ramsey

FDA's investigation of BTS revealed serious and widespread deficiencies in their manufacturing process.

Margaret Glavin

We're in a period of manufacturing expansion.

Peter Klein

We've really created a buzz in the retail and manufacturing industries. We'll be visible.

Keith Primeau

In the manufacturing world, that's significant. We're driving toward a culture of watching out for one another.

Michael Spence

The LMSD (Light Manufacturing and Studio District) will probably not go back to manufacturing, ... Is that someplace there could be some housing development that would not impact the rest of the City?

Pam O'connor

The county's income is declining because manufacturing is declining, and manufacturing is declining ... as something we value as a nation. The Big Three are having less and less of an impact in Macomb County, and the auto industry in general has less and less of an impact on the nation's economy.

Jim Jacobs

I suspect it will be Mexico and not be a UAW facility. The UAW won't like it, but Ford doesn't have a choice. Manufacturing has to go where it's most efficient and low-cost.

Jim Hossack

This is a very good job. It has all the kind of benefits associated with the U.S. manufacturing sector 20 years ago.

Art Hatfield

With the recent confirmation that the manufacturing recovery is on hold, we expect economic growth forecasts for both the world and UK economies to be cut back in the forthcoming Pre-Budget Report.

John Monks

The company also has the objective of commercializing novel biotechnology instrumentation and the advancement of biotechnology manufacturing techniques.

Justin Swick

We have been a manufacturing center for more than 100 years. These practices have not come without a cost to the environment.

Phil Schrantz

I was impressed with what he did. He's very skillful as a manufacturing engineer. He never had responsibility for product design, (but) he got it and he did a great job.

Jim Jensen

China, with its low cost of labor, has a comparative advantage in shoe manufacturing.

Chong Quan

Our vision is to make India a world class manufacturing unit.

Peter Tan

In the late '90s, manufacturing was looked at as a cost to be controlled. It wasn't looked at strategically.

Jeff Hutchinson

Although they may be neighbors, East Lansing doesn't have the kind of industrial manufacturing base Lansing has.

Todd Cook

Digital manufacturing promises to closely couple production design with the manufacturing process. As product mix changes, you have to make changes to your process.

Andy Chatha

We're getting away from manufacturing, but we're making up for it in service industries, most particularly the medical industry.

Tom Deboer

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

Jerry Weller

We're in a different ball game now. We're going to be shedding a lot of the low-education manufacturing jobs.

John Austin

We are always going to have manufacturing, but those numbers are decreasing. We have to come up with something to replace those manufacturing jobs.

Mindy Kenworthy

I haven't had any surprises in the casino business or in manufacturing or in the restaurant business, which we deal in worldwide. But the airline business is crazy. The airline business isn't my cup of tea.

Robert Brooks

The better-than-expected results are mainly attributable to market-share gains in the LCD TV business and enhanced manufacturing capability.

Max Cheng

Typically, the proximity of an intermodal facility is conducive to the development of light manufacturing and distribution facilities.

David Whitaker

America has consistently been the best place in the world to innovate . . . and it's more important today because we're not a low-cost manufacturing or agricultural economy. So getting applicants and inventors involved in the process is important.

Jon Dudas

We've really been coming on lately hitting the ball. We've been doing a good job manufacturing runs with timely hitting.

Bob Rowe

Point to recession in both the manufacturing sector and the general economy.

Philadelphia Fed

Overseas investments are coming in every sector, from manufacturing to services. New jobs are being created. Demand for manufactured goods, services and manpower are rising and that's keeping the economy buoyant.

Saumitra Chaudhuri

The goal is to help us do with products what we did with manufacturing at the Rouge Plant.

Jon Pepper

I think the Bank of Canada sees these manufacturing losses as a smooth and necessary adjustment.

Ted Carmichael

This isn't going to have an impact on manufacturing in Oceanside.

Colleen Wilson

Manufacturing is in a hole but the housing market is pretty buoyant.

Michael Dicks

This raises the odds that manufacturing payrolls may finally break through on Friday and register a gain.

Steve Stanley

After the stronger report on manufacturing from the New York Fed yesterday, it definitely reinforces the fact that the economy is doing better.

John Spinello

These figures confirm the picture of a manufacturing sector facing pressures from all sides.

Doug Godden

Clearly, this is a part of the state that is doing really well right now, in terms of manufacturing and just about every thing else.

David Penn

We're trying to bring housing down to a manufacturing corridor ... there's always some challenges.

Paul Schmidt

It is the numerous small manufacturing businesses like my own that provide Connecticut with the tax base it needs.

Paul Hoffman

You don't need a strong home base for sales anymore. You just need Germany to be a good base for manufacturing.

Dirk Schumacher

I would think you'd be able to run an auto company's North American division out of there, ... Considering they already have the manufacturing operations there, that would make sense.

John Novak

This extremely difficult decision is a direct result of the competitive pressure being experienced by our domestic automotive customers and the requirements they have for us to constantly reduce our manufacturing costs.

Ted Cox

Manufacturing continues to weigh on growth.

Lorna Wallace

Keep in mind that export orders are a big part of this and since Asia has turned, so has manufacturing turned.

Kathleen Camilli

I'd rather be the UK than Germany right now with its manufacturing legacy.

Nicola Horlick

The fundamentals of the economy are sound. There is growth in services, manufacturing, foreign direct investments inflows are increasing and the stock market is booming.

Rajive Saharia

The business case for manufacturing in Brazil is not about optimizing labor costs but about getting inside a complex duty system.

Jan Lindholm

We use to call on a customer and engineering was in one part of the building, purchasing in another and manufacturing in another. With one visit we could talk to all of them.

Roy Vallee

India is a market in its own right. A (manufacturing) facility like this will help Dell to be close to its customers not just in India, but South Asia.

James Mcgregor

They're dealing with some of the same countries that we're dealing with. They're dealing in manufacturing environments as well as distributor environments. They're dealing with import and export issues, which is a big part of our business. They understand the fundamentals and have hands-on experience with all supply-chain activity.

Charles Anderson

We will talk to anybody -- people who can manufacture the drug, and are able to manufacture it faster than us, and complement our manufacturing.

Franz Humer

This is not just a problem of lost jobs. The transfer of technology, know-how and manufacturing is also affecting the balance of power.

Bill Hawkins

Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.

Arjuna Mahendran

People watch the manufacturing sector most closely in terms of gauging the Canadian dollar's fallout on the economy.

Warren Lovely

It means manufacturing is expanding sluggishly and that's probably about what we want.

Richard Rippe

We have segmented the project in what we called aircraft components, manufacturing and development teams.

Noel Forgeard

Michigan is an economic hurricane center -- we've been hit but we aren't getting the attention of Hurricane Katrina victims. We need the same kind of attention New Orleans is getting for manufacturing.

Chuck Hadden

There is still a distinct danger of renewed recession in manufacturing.

David Kern

This project is considered to be one of the most important projects in the Kingdom and will fill the gap in the cement manufacturing and export of cement that coincides with consumer consumption.

Ali Karimi

We are going to announce something that will positively affect five Michigan manufacturing locations.

Dan Flores

This may be a good board for monitoring the financial status of the company, but it lacks experience in marketing and manufacturing and innovating in those areas.

Ralph Ward

Business investment is on the rise, manufacturing activity is gaining momentum, and sustained job growth is just around the corner.

Brian Wesbury

They learned a lot about tuning in their manufacturing with the K6, ... They're much more efficient now.

Mike Feibus

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

Gary Thayer

This shows manufacturing continues to get deeper into recession.

Sung Won Sohn

[Friday's] data clearly indicate that U.S. manufacturing may not be quite at a bottom. The weakness is led by computers and electronic equipment, but other categories are weak also.

Mary Webb

Agribusiness and food manufacturing is big here. This project addresses challenges to their business. This is the right sort of project for this loan.

Bill Teets

That's a huge drop in manufacturing... that throws that NAPM number in a less favorable light.

James Jackson

You have to be careful that your entire strategy doesn't depend on one industry. But manufacturing is still a vital part of the American economy.

Ross Devol

Manufacturing is recovering -- and the recovery, in fact, is accelerating.

Harvinder Kalirai

We knew we had to be asset free. As we rationalized manufacturing and the supply base, we had to be nimble and flexible.

John Drury

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Ralph Kauffman

It's really the information age. ... We have to use our intelligence, because we're not going to see a re-emergence of the manufacturing base. If you train and educate your kids, they will get ahead ... that's the key to better paying jobs.

Ted Leh

We are at risk of losing some manufacturing, but the biggest risk is we won't get any expansion of current manufacturing. You're not solving the problem. You're just moving the greenhouse gases to another location.

Dorothy Rothrock

He came here from a Washington law firm with expertise in manufacturing and international experience.

Mike Shore

These are the jobs that stay and are becoming more attractive as manufacturing jobs go abroad.

Cathy Minkler

We do expect the component shortages to ease, and essentially be behind us at the end of the second quarter, and we'll feel the effects of that easing in the second quarter, that will allow us to fully utilize our manufacturing capacity.

Merle Gilmore

Art became separated from artisans and mass manufacturing turned individuals from creators to consumers.

Neil Gershenfeld

Welfare and dependency grants, personal income tax relief, and cuts in those costs which would make housing more affordable for middle and low income earners are likely to buoy consumption expenditure, and manufacturing.

Colen Garrow

The most important thing is not just to Nokia but to India. I understand this is the first mobile manufacturing facility in India.

Matti Vanhanen

I have every expectation it will set a new record, I think manufacturing has a future.

James Buchen

The inspector discovered the supplier actually changed the manufacturing process without telling the railroad.

Philip Toy

The manufacturing expansion is running out of gas.

Rich Yamarone

People are reading these figures as bullish for the German manufacturing sector.

John Shepperd

When planning for the future, we try to bring the right products for manufacturing that mesh without expertise and capabilities and can be handled safely.

David Mcmellon

The Christmas Price Index reflects the changing economic mix in the U.S. away from manufacturing to a more service based economy.

Jeff Kleintop

The loss of manufacturing jobs after 2000 was just huge, and those jobs haven't come back.

Martin Baily

There are a lot of different companies driving the market. It's not just manufacturing but also distribution and trade, and I think that portends very well for the local economy.

Mike Williams

Listen, we're losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.

Tim Ryan

We?re probably going to focus on metal manufacturing.

Craig Stevenson

Our manufacturing strategy execution continues to be flawless. The increased capacity provided by Fab 36 will contribute to our goal of doubling total production by 2008.

Dirk Meyer

Companies like Cisco and Dell really are becoming very successful OEMs without manufacturing their products internally.

Tim Main

With more than 25 years of combined pet food manufacturing knowledge, we've made it our No. 1 goal to produce products that are, first and foremost, the healthiest pet foods on the market.

Ron Mayert

Manufacturing is probably in a steady downtrend, and when you get cheap imports, it is a recipe for a bit of margin contraction.

Peter Chilton

One of these days, we're going to see an increase in non-farm payrolls for the manufacturing sector.

David Resler

The tax on manufacturing equipment should be eliminated.

Rep. Kosta Diamantis

Most companies already have manufacturing in China, and you don't want all your eggs in one basket. That's the strategic mentality we're seeing more often than not across industries.

Frederick Burke

We realize that as we grow our business in India, it'll require a manufacturing facility.

Jess Blackburn

We have a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to handle unusually high levels of meat inclusion and human-grade ingredients.

Ron Mayert

A very solid number, indicating that manufacturing is continuing to expand.

Rick Egelton

Rochester has long been thought of as a manufacturing town. But it's not blue-collar manufacturing, it's white-collar manufacturing.

Kent Gardner

With agriculture and manufacturing, this package links up two of Michigan's largest industries.

Rep. Neal Nitz

The main issue arises when we get into manufacturing resource planning.

Parminder Basran

Manufacturing is growing but the pace of growth has decelerated. The outlook for manufacturing production in 2006 is for moderate growth.

Daniel Meckstroth

Tech is a great place for opportunity, much in the same way that private equity firms looked at manufacturing in the 80s.

Jesse Reyes

In spite of what you may think, manufacturing has not gone completely offshore.

Bob Leak

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing, ... It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.

Phil English

It gives us jurisdiction we currently do not have. Historically, the criminal cases surrounding the large-scale manufacturing of illegal documents have been brought by the U.S. attorney.

Jason Dunn

It is Illinois agriculture, ... with some manufacturing and perhaps a little bit of tourism. It is not an urban area.

Timothy Collins

The overall picture in August as indicated by growth in production, new orders, and backlog of orders is one of continued growth in manufacturing activity.

Norbert J. Ore

When you combine the university and all that means with the heavy manufacturing, you've got a good combination.

Dennis Cuneo

Manufacturing is not a majority of the labor market any more, but I would expect services will continue to show the trend growth.

Jeoff Hall

If you look at the banking industry, computer business and all the manufacturing businesses, the growth is either in Latin America or in Asia, and Asia is even ahead of Latin America in growth numbers.

Athar Khan

It seems to be working. If you hadn't have had manufacturing layoffs, everything else tends to be positive.

William Mezger

Consumers are stepping aside, and manufacturing and other business sectors are stepping in. The U.S. business sector is looking very healthy.

Jim Paulsen

We all know that manufacturing sector employment is plummeting, and with that, you look around and see what could be a good job and you look at health care.

Tom Bissonnette

We have 36 people in manufacturing right now, and we'll add four to six people to our plant after we move.

Les Finkelstein

Manufacturing is still in a world of hurt.

Gary Schlossberg

Intel always has been and will remain a strong tech and manufacturing-focused company.

Krishna Shankar

The very survival of New Brunswick?s manufacturing sector is now at risk.

David Plante

Asia is known for its manufacturing. That's why we want to come to this region.

Arif Mubarak

With most of the drawings complete, our suppliers and fabrication plants can begin manufacturing detailed parts.

Mike Delaney

This forward-looking index points to continued expansion in most manufacturing industries.

Donald A. Norman

A global recovery means more demand, especially from Asia, which is more manufacturing-intensive.

Patrizio Merciai

This is disastrous news for British manufacturing. It is inconceivable that workers in France would be laid off on this scale.

Derek Simpson

It's a radically different manufacturing process.

Michael Mcgehee

Industrial output was way ahead of expectations on the back of a strong recovery in manufacturing sector output.

Shuchita Mehta

She just assured us that she will do everything she can to help manufacturing in this state.

Art Luna

We try to do what we can in our own way. We want to eventually have machine manufacturing in America. Our goal is to open some of those factories in our community that have closed.

Natalie Chanin

China is becoming a major manufacturing base for the world.

Fred Kindle

We've been locally manufacturing EPS products for more than 40 years. When Clark Foam closed, surfboard makers had to find other foam alternatives.

Mike Bilby

If you were constrained by manufacturing capacity, you would focus on selling the lower-end Pentium III, which is almost a drop-in replacement for the higher-end Celerons, but more profitable.

Danny Lam

The silver lining in this trend is that we could gain some manufacturing jobs in the United States.

Joe Lin

Manufacturing is still one of the greatest costs in an organization. But in the current business environment, what separates you from your competitors is your complete supply chain.

Jeff Hutchinson

Manufacturing is doing pretty well.

Bruce Bittles

I'm not surprised, because the manufacturing sector in our community is really feeling the pain and G. L. Bowron are heavily export-dependent.

Peter Townsend

We have a lot of diversification of manufacturing in our area.

Rob Walker

This would be an indication that activity is increasing at more than half the manufacturing firms in the survey, and another sign of growth.

Carol Stone

He was very proud of it, and he wanted the manufacturing history to be preserved.

Patricia Greenspan

Larger EMS guys have moved volume manufacturing out of the states into lower cost geographies.

Jim Rosenberg

We depend on foreign investment not only to bridge the gap between what we save and what we consume, but our manufacturing base is heavily supported by foreign investment.

David Marchick

A lot of areas right now that we're feeding into are suppliers for manufacturing in Boone County.

Tom Austin

The greatest beneficiary is the US plane manufacturing business.

Li Jiaxiang

Alleviating the plight of manufacturing, and countering the downward pressures on the economy, are now key priorities.

David Kern

For some of them, it's pretty straightforward. Like manufacturing. That's its own classification in the employment statistics.

David Penn

Economic growth will still stay strong ... but the manufacturing sector will not help.

Elna Moolman

Trade is a drag (on growth) and that tends to hit manufacturing harder than the rest of the economy.

Edward Mckelvey

Some jobs in manufacturing might well disappear as a result of weakness in housing, but this may be offset by jobs brought home or not lost to foreign competition.

Edward Leamer

We will be evaluating that (a manufacturing base) as we move forward and our business grows.

Edward Zander

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

Zack Wamp

If that factory has a catastrophic event, where can they provide alternative manufacturing facilities? If they can't, then you're out of business because they're out of business.

Eugene Kiernan

This is a very bond-friendly report. It was below expectations. It points to a slower manufacturing sector in the Chicago area.

Evan Rourke

The [Internal Revenue Service] says we are manufacturing, while the U.S. Department of Agriculture says we are agriculture. They are definitely not in agreement.

Eric Ellis

Greater expectations of foreign currency generation from the manufacturing and the mining sectors will help narrow the gap but not close it.

Eric Bloch