Mass production
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Mass production, also known as series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and espe
A modern automobile assembly line
Sometimes production in series has obvious benefits, as is the case with this 5-sickle casting mould from the Bronze Age on show at a museum in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
A pulley block for rigging on a sailing ship. By 1808, annual production in Portsmouth reached 130,000 blocks.
CNT-FAI worker cooperative in Barcelona producing wood and steel products
Assembly line
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An assembly line, often called progressive assembly, is a manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until
Mass production
…manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines. Together with job production and batch production, it is one of the three main production methods. The term mass production was popularized by a 1926…
An Airbus A321 on final assembly line 3 in the Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant
Lotus Cars assembly line as of 2008
Ford assembly line, 1913. The magneto assembly line was the first.