Final Customer Purchasing from the Product Producer
Use Steps: Use steps include all the customer's value added activities or the consumption of the product itself. These steps include all the costs the customer incurs in employing the product in its intended use.
B.
Resources: Reduce resources required for the use of the product
3.
Energy: Reduce the energy the customer uses with the product
B. Health – Reduce the toll the product takes on the customer's health
Modify product to reduce hazards
Other
| No. | SIC | Year | Note |
| 1 | 7999 | 2003 | Since being purchased by Vail Resorts in May 2002, Heavenly has invested more than $15 million in capital improvements and plans to spend another $25 million by 2005. The idea is to make Tahoe's largest ski resort more of a Vail-like destination resort. The resort has renovated lodges and added a 15-acre beginner area at the top of the gondola, a high-speed lift on the California side of the mountain and more powerful snow-making equipment among other improvements. |
| 2 | 8099 | 1992 | Newly refined magnetic resonance imaging equipment shows 3-D images of animals' insides. Unlike conventional microscopy, the machines can observe minute internal changes in a single test animal over a period of time. |
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