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Its three-year-old plant in England's West Midlands was Cat's first European facility. Each month, it processes 15,000 worn-out, grime-encrusted engines and parts. Caterpillar has moved beyond remanufacturing just its own diesel engines and components; 40% of the automotive, truck, rail and marine motors...
Remanufacturing is such a money spinner because of the low cost of the materials and energy it uses. Materials represent 70% of costs for a new product, but only 40% for a remanufactured one. And because there's less casting and smelting, a particularly power-hungry aspect of production processes...
The factory has been designed so that new production processes can be added to the assembly line at any time without disrupting the work flow. That's a huge advantage over more traditional lines, which need to be shut down for any changeover or addition. Several key suppliers are based...
That could all be about to change. During those same 10 years, researchers have made extraordinary progress in understanding the physical basis of addiction. They know now, for example, that the 20% success rate can shoot up to 40% if treatment is ongoing (very much the AA model, which is...
“Over the years, Drew Faust had been involved in many search processes, understood their intricacies and complexities, and took this one very seriously,” Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education Howard E. Gardner ’65 said.