Assembly lines

Assembly lines enable economies of scale from the increased specialistaion of the workforce. Because workers do a specific job they need less training to be able to a specific task
Assembly line and Ford Motor Cars ...

Assembly lines brought a great decrease in time to a finished product, yet was attended by a number of less pleasant consequences.

of assembly lines and hourly wages. The initial use of scientific management by industries greatly increased productivity because workers were forced to work at a faster pace.

To most people, capital means a bank account, a hundred shares of IBM stock, assembly lines, or steel plants in the Chicago area.

Computerization has made assembly lines faster and more accurate and has given them more flexibility.

Individual manual labor is often replaced by mechanized mass production and craftsmen are replaced by assembly lines.

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