The manufacturing industry in Malaysia became a significant contributor to the country's economy in the postindependence period beginning in the 1960s. During the colonial period, the country had been a major producer of raw materials, namely,...

A critical goal of the Philippine economy has been an expansion of its product manufacturing base to take advantage of its labor surplus and position itself favorably in the regional economy. The Philippines is a labor-surplus country, and the...

Indonesia's economic performance from 1969 to 1996 has been remarkable. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, gross domestic product (GDP) grew by more than 7.5 percent per annum (p.a.). After a mild economic recession due to the collapse of...

Industrial production is the backbone for economic output in almost all countries. Over the past decades, manufacturing industrial production has been growing in most economies. The industrial sector is dominated by the production of a few major...

Manufacturing (from Latin manu factura, "making by hand") is the use of tools and labor to make things for use or sale. The term may refer to a vast range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial...

A better than expected performance from the U.S. manufacturing sector in February helped calm investors on Thursday, even as economists cautioned that one month's worth of data is not a cause for too much optimism.Industrial activity, as measured by the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing...

While the U.S. manufacturing sector grew for the sixth consecutive month in July, expansion was the slowest since March, a survey said Wednesday, indicating that the economy is plodding along at a tepid pace.The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index, which reflects the...

Confidence among Japanese manufacturers slipped in March for the first time in a year, according to a closely-watched Bank of Japan survey released Monday.But on a positive note, the quarterly "tankan" survey, which polls more than 10,000 companies, showed that large businesses plan to boost...

A trade group representing the nation's manufacturers on Tuesday predicted a soft landing for the U.S. economy in 2007, despite expectations that residential real estate will act as a drag on growth.In its annual forecast, the National Association of Manufacturers forecast that industrial output would...

Nowadays, for a product, quality has become the most important factor when customer buying a certain product. In the world, there have thousands of methods to measure products quality are good or not. Quality is company's life, in order to improve profits, company always use different kinds of ways such as questionnaire to know what kind of products customer want. This report focus on the mobile phone industry, to have a general description about customer requirements of mobile phone in China, and base on t

Development of manufacturing in the United States.