Manufacturing sector

FMEA was first used in the 1960s by the aerospace sector, but has since found applications in the nuclear, electronics, chemical and motor manufacturing sectors. FMEA can also apply to office processes as well as design and manufacturing processes, which are the main application areas. 

Some of the alternatives for specific products of the foam manufacturing sector are described briefly below. The alternatives are listed as short-term and long-term options, without an elaboration of the merits of each. 

The movement away from energy-intensive processes in the manufacturing sector was an important force m the reductions m energy intensity during these years. One of the most noticeable shifts was in... 

Although the manufacturing sector continued its decline in the production of energy-intensive products, between 1986 and 1997 the service sector continued to grow. Not only did the commercial building stock increase, but the use of office equipment—from computers to copy machines—has grown rapidly. In just three years, between 1992 and 1995, the number of personal computers and computer terminals m commercial buildings increased from 29.8 million to 43 million (45%). 

In USA the yearly man-hours employment producing all plastic products by all processes is estimated at 650 million, second to motor vehicles at 845 million. Following plastic products (in millions) are aircraft at 570, commercial printing at 560, newspapers at 475, meat at 460, metal structural products at 350, and computers at 325. The USA plastics Industry is growing and creating jobs faster than the other manufacturing sectors. 

P2AD, An Analysis of Pollution Prevention Opportunities and Impediments in the Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Sector in Georgia, Pollution Prevention Assistance Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, April 1, 1996. 

This chapter, which identifies the existing trends in EM research for the manufacturing sector and develops new EM regimes that are important for continued advances in energy rationalisation, is divided into three main sections ... 

Labuschagne, C., and Brent, A., 2004. Sustainable project life cycle management The need to integrate life cycles in the manufacturing sector, International Journal of Project Management, 23 (2), 159-168. 

Cohen, S.M., Nelson, R.R., and Walsh, J.R, Appropriability conditions and why firms patent and why they do not in the American manufacturing sector. Working Paper, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1997. 

Industrial furnaces serve the manufacturing sector and can be divided into two groups. Boiler furnaces, which are the larger group and are used solely to generate steam, were discussed earlier in the subsection... 

With the increasingly competitive enviromnent in the manufacturing sector, organizations are always searching for new ways to reduce costs, improve efficiency and product quality. To remain competitive, many companies have devised and implemented corporate-based continuous improvement initiatives. As part of continuous improvement, process analytical implementations should be periodically evaluated to determine if they are still necessary and adding value to the production process. 

Perhaps the least rmderstood factor in the process of microarraying is the print buffer (probe ink) composition. This may not be too much of a surprise because manufacturers of computer printers offer consumers a multitude of different inks (whose formulas are closely guarded trade secrets) for use with a particular printer and kind of paper. In fact, it can be argued that the ink is perhaps the most important piece of the consumable product stream for this manufacturing sector. 

Although the numbers change each year, percentages of each sector do not change very much. Note that manufacturing is one of the largest sectors in terms of value added and amounts to about 16% or almost one sixth of the GDP. The chemical industry is a part of this manufacturing sector. 

The chemical industry is actually a set of related industries with many diverse functions and products. Certain raw materials are used to prepare key chemicals, monomers, and intermediates that may be sold independently or used directly in additional steps to give various polymers and end chemicals. These in turn can be formulated and fabricated into chemical products, which can sometimes be modified into finished products. There is a flow of materials and products from raw sources to finished formulations. Although the division is approximate, about 60% of the chemical industry manufactures industrial products that are further modified, whereas 40% of their products are sold directly to the consumer. Chemistry may not be a household word, but it should be. Actually, the older name for the Chemical Manufacturing sector is Chemicals and Allied Products, still used sometimes and a term that adequately describes the breadth of the industry. 

In Part Vll we look at the role of governmental or national responsibilities. South African pharmacist Joao L. Carapinha addresses these issues from his country s perspective. Carapinha proposes a comprehensive public-private sector response to the treatment access challenge. He comes out strongly in favor of an interventionist government, noting the need for the developing country to intervene in the manufacturing sector and to direct it to produce affordable medications. 

SA s pharmaceutical manufacturing sector will benefit if it learnt from these experiences and commenced a process of instituting the measures used by newly industrialized countries to turn around their economies. The governments of these countries guided... 

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