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Article: Be a product inventor.(Free Thinking)
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- Production Machining
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- September 1, 2009
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"If you're not meaningfully unique, you'd better be cheap." These are the words of Doug Hall (www.doughall.com), founder of Eureka! Ranch and P&G brand-building Wunderkind. The quote is also the mantra for the U.S. government's latest initiative to lead manufacturing in this country into the new century.
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The goal of the new administration's plan is to help transition discrete manufacturing companies--small and mid-sized manufacturers (SMMs)--from the old economic model based on commodity and price to a new economic model based on innovation, technology and environment.
In other words, the government wants to help shops ...