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Dell To Dispose Off Factories

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2008-09-05 09:24:54 by Editor in Ubergizmo
...factories to contract electronics manufacturers - at least that's what the Wall Street Journal reported this morning. Apparently, Dell is keen to dispose of most, if not all, of its factories within one and a half years. As for the remaining factories, those will close, and Dell will take the outsourcing route where PC production is...
 
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Dell To Dispose Off Factories

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2008-09-05 22:09:04 by admin in GadgetBB News Blog
...factories to contract electronics manufacturers - at least thats what the Wall Street Journal reported this morning. Apparently, Dell is keen to dispose of most, if not all, of its factories within one and a half years. As for the remaining factories, those will close, and Dell will take the outsourcing route where PC production is concerned....
 
Tags: factories, dell, dell factories, dispose, wall street journal, contract electronics manufacturers, global economy, gonna stop, downward spiral
 
 
 
 
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Dell looking to sell factories to increase profitability

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2008-09-05 17:57:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...factories" within the next 18 months -- if it can find some buyers, that is. As the paper notes, the factories were originally built to serve a PC market driven by corporate customers ordering large volumes of desktop PCs, but they've fast become a drag on the company as growth has shifted towards laptops sold at retail stores. While nothing...
 
Tags: dell, factories, contract manufacturers, wall street journal, company plans, desktop pcs, pcs, company, journal pegs
 
 
 
 
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Latest Oobject gallery looks inside Chinese factories

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2008-06-20 13:28:55 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
David Galbraith, curator over at Oobject , writes about his latest gallery showing the insides of Chinese factories: Although a couple of these are from a photo essay, I've tried to pull as many as poss from publicity material. A weird thing emerged - most Chinese factories seem to have the same bland pastel colored thing going on chinese...
 
Tags: oobject, chinese factories, chinese factories oobject, photo essay, bland pastel, publicity material, david galbraith, gallery, curator
 
 
 
 
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Latest Oobject gallery looks inside Chinese factories

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2008-06-20 13:28:55 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
David Galbraith, curator over at Oobject , writes about his latest gallery showing the insides of Chinese factories: Although a couple of these are from a photo essay, I've tried to pull as many as poss from publicity material. A weird thing emerged - most Chinese factories seem to have the same bland pastel colored thing going on chinese...
 
Tags: oobject, chinese factories, chinese factories oobject, photo essay, bland pastel, publicity material, david galbraith, gallery, curator
 
 
 
 
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A Look Inside Futuristic German Car Factories [German Engineering]

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2008-07-09 20:00:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...factories. Why? Because they are gadgety, first and foremostbut the architecture of the factories is significant as well. In other words, German car manufacturers are realizing a vision where both the product and the factory are an integrated work of art. Examples include the VW factory in Wolfsburg that features 200 foot tall robotic silos...
 
Tags: german car factories, german, factories, german car manufacturers, features, oobject features, oobject, production line, factory
 
 
 
 
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Dell to Sell Most or All of Its Factories in 18 Months [Dell]

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2008-09-05 12:15:00 by Mark Wilson in Gizmodo
...factories, which are based in the US, will be sold off in 18 months Dell has long used their own factories to assemble computers after a consumer places an ordera technique Dell pioneered to cut inventory costs and boost profits. Currently, the company relies on Asian computer parts assembled in Dell US factoriesthe "two touch" process. The...
 
Tags: dell, ordera technique dell, factories, production, production plants, cut inventory costs, wall street journal, process, process overseas
 
 
 
 
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Sharp's 108" Television to Finally Arrive in US in 2008, and Other Signs of Heavy Investments in LCD Panel Factories

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2008-01-06 15:57:17 by Jose Fermoso in Gadget Lab
...factories in the world, the Sakai City plant, in addition to their 2 large Kameyama plants. These will have a heavy investment in solar cell production that will be churning at max speed in order to take advantage of the demand of LCD panels throughout the world. The total estimated investment of these plants in the next 2-3 years? A cool...
 
Tags: lcd, 9-inches, 9-inches wide, lcd sales, inches, sharp, solar cell production, lcd panels, heavy investment
 
 
 
 
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Japan to Build Huge Solar Power Plants to Power Sharp Factories [Solar Power]

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2008-06-25 05:10:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...factories more eco-friendly, the two plants will generate 10 megawatts and 28 megawatts of electricity and reduce CO2 emissions by 10 kilotons yearly. Apparently the "Sakai City Waterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan" will be among the biggest like it in the world, and is part of a bid by Sakai to become a leading eco-friendly city....
 
Tags: sharp, eco-friendly, sharp gadgets, eco-friendly city, reduce co2 emissions, city, kansai electric power, bid, clearer conscience