#manufacturing

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#lobby #manufacturing #networks #nobody #returns

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

— Tom Peters

#almost #comes #design #improvement #layout

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #compete #creative #developed #economy

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing. ↗

— Roy Romer

#box #computer #ibm #knocked #know

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#again #bankruptcy #confronting #crisis #manufacturing

Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#high-tech #industries #jobs #lost #manufacturing

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

#congressional #congressional district #district #economy #expanded

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#history #human #machine #manufacturing #rebellion

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation. ↗

— Larry Elder

#benefits #causes #companies #consumers #cost

The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#again #bankruptcy #crisis #manufacturing #once