控制成本 control the cost
A: How do you control your cost?
B: We haven't done anything specially.

原材料 raw material
A: Does this plant handle everything from raw material to finished products?
B: Some accessories are made by our associates specializing in these fields.
Here's the production workshop.

零配件 spare parts
A: Do we need to store so many spare parts?
B: Yes,because many of them are easy-to-break parts.

我们生产… We produce...
A: Currently we produce several kinds of cooking pots
made of different materials.
B: Technically speaking,the one made of duralumin is both cheap and durable.

装配线 assembly line
A: I will show you around the work shop.
Put on the safety hat and watch your steps,please.
B: Okay.Is the assembly line fully automated?

月产量 monthly output
A: What's the monthly output?
B: One thousand units per month now.
But we will be making 1,200 units per month next year.

废品率
percentage of reject products
A: What's your usual percentage of reject products?
B: Around 2% in normal operations.
A: That's really great.

工厂的生产能力
capacity of the factory
A: What is the capacity of your factory?
B: 500 sets per week.
A: So you can complete this order on time?
B: Definitely.

提高生产效率
improve production efficiency
A: How do you improve your production efficiency?
B: We bought the latest equipment from Germanny this month.
A: Are those equipment easy to operate?
B: We have the engineers to direct the operation in our company.

促进创新
encourage innovations
A: As the manager of your department,
how do you think of innovations in our companay?
B: I think that's really important.
A: Yes,so do you have any way to encourage innovations?
B: We can draft the incentive policies for innovations.

加工效率 processing efficiency
A: How is our processing efficiency?
B: We can do better.
A: How?
B: We'd better introduce some advanced techniques from other counties to improve ours.