Mian Muhammad Mansha Quotes

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

Manufacturing all over the world has the benefit of efficiency. That's great. I support it.

Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.

With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

The man who places a part does not fasten it. The man who puts in the bold does not out on the nut. The man who puts on the nut does not tighten it. Every piece of work in the shop moves. It may move on hooks, on overhead chains …. It may travel on a moving platform or go by gravity.

These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea.

My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.

It's crazy to go into manufacturing. That's not where the money is.

I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.

A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until it delivers the manufactured product in the domestic or foreign market, can work on a narrower margin all around, and yet do full justice to its stockholders and employees.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing.

Most American flags are made in China as you know.

The spinning work is performed by the poor people who live in villages and scattered houses. The clothiers, who generally live in the towns, send out the wool weekly to the spinners. At the same time, the clothiers' servants and horses bring back the yarn that they the spinners have spun and finished.

Many large corporations in the last 20 years have decided that their business plan is to shut down manufacturing in Dayton and Toledo and move it to Wuhan and Shenzhen. And then they will sell products back into the United States. It’s a betrayal of this country and a betrayal of the middle class.

What was worked out at Ford was the practice of moving the work from one worker to another until it became a complete unit, then arranging the flow of these units at the right time and the right place to a moving final assembly line from which came a finished product.

Companies are doing a good job at producing stuff. They are just doing it without people.

Build to a standard, not a price.

I've been to so many manufacturing plants. I've yet to walk into one where I did not think AI solutions wouldn't help.