Instead, workers spend a day or two making components as they are needed.

During the war its factories made components for the aircraft industry.

Making components rather than buying them is also a traditional way for great manufacturers to save costs.

About 10,000 people walked out of a nearby plant that makes engines and other components.

Samsung should stick to making components, and leave design to the big boys.

It can be used to make electric components like transistors.

Their Birmingham factory was established in order to make components for car manufacturers.

Hoover started making components for automotive seats in the mid-1960s.

A decision was made to replace them with components made from a new material.

They can also be very large, probably larger than monolithic ceramic components made by any other process.