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Dividends, share buybacks, to stay nice and lean. there are reasons besides just the enrichment of shareholders for that, but thats a major factor. >> we have this just in time which is a toyota innovation which is basically saying, look, if stuff is sitting in inventory, its not making you money. you want to move things as quickly from production to consumer without sitting around. then youve got these consolidation happening, and one thing i took away from your piece is there is a trade-off be...

Which is basically, look, if stuff is sitting in inventory, its not making money. you want to move things as quickly from production to consumer without sitting around. then you have the consolidation that is happening. one thing i took from your piece is that, theres a tradeoff between efficiency and resiliency. the more efficient a supply chain gets, the less resilient it is. if it were a little less efficient, more redundant, there was more stuff sitting around, then that might be a more resi...

Difficult. next is making sure we had a system that was rigorous enough, was critical. and we built that over time. and there were improvements we had to make as we learned. so, for instance, one of the changes we made in about september, october, was that if you were phoning somebody up on the contact tracing site, to an individual, you would ask them to tell their contacts in their household to isolate instead of asking for the names of all those individuals and them phoning them one at a time...

The current generation of walking robots are not particularly energy efficient, according to an analysis which also shows how much more efficient they could be

The presence and accumulation of the antioxidant pigment anthocyanin dictates fruit hue in plums, and the synthesis of this compound is known to be...

Materials scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a reusable "nanotech mask" that can block 99.9 per cent of bacteria, viruses and particulate...

Photo Credit: IANS IANSLive Singapore, June 9 (IANS) Scientists from Singapores Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a reusable "nanotech mask" that can block 99.9 per cent of bacteria, viruses and particulate matter (PM), as well as kill germs in just 45 seconds, much effective against Covid-19 than the currently used N95 masks.   For susbcription contact  

Photo Credit: IANS IANSLive Singapore, June 9 (IANS) Scientists from Singapores Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a reusable "nanotech mask" that can block 99.9 per cent of bacteria, viruses and particulate matter (PM), as well as kill germs in just 45 seconds, much effective against Covid-19 than the currently used N95 masks.   For susbcription contact  

**Advanced warehousing technologies improve efficiency** **Separation of people and machine spaces and new racking design are a global first for a Toyota...

SHREVEPORT, LA / ACCESSWIRE / June 4, 2021 / Even though in the recent decades there's been a great progress as far as society and economy are concerned, nations worldwide still have certain issues to