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The assembly line was first introduced by Eli Whitney to create muskets for the U.S. Government. Henry Ford later introduced the moving assembly line at the Highland Park Ford Plant to cut manufacturing costs and deliver a cheaper product.
Until the 1800s, craftsmen would create each part of a product individually, and assemble them, making changes in the parts so that they would fit together - the so-called English System of manufacture.
the American System of manufacturing in 1799, using the ideas of division of labour and of engineering tolerance , to create assemblies from parts in a repeatable manner.
This linear assembly process, or assembly line, allowed relatively unskilled laborers to add simple parts to a product. As all the parts were already made, they just had to be assembled.
While originally not of the quality found in hand-made units, designs using an assembly line process required less knowledge from the assemblers, and therefore could be created for a lower cost.
The assembly line originally consisted of which all the parts would move on a belt or chains and the workers would stand in a line to assemble the products. Hence the name"assembly line"
In early industrial times, the assembly line ran smoothy, but as competition increased the workers had to work faster and longer hours; therefore making the workplace injury rate higher.
Many workers were unhappy with the assembly line because most never had the satisfaction of seeing a finished product, and due to the unsafe, tiring working conditions.
Although Whitney was first to use the assembly line in the industrial ageThe Industrial Revolution is the name given to the massive social, economic, and technological change in 18th century and 19th century Great Britain. It commenced with the introduction of steam power (fuelled primarily by coal) and powered, automated mach, the idea of interchangeable parts and the assembly line was not new, though it was little used.
The idea was first developed in VeniceVenice ( Italian Venezia German Venedig , the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto, population 271,073 (2001). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater l several hundred years earlier, where ships were produced using pre-manufactured parts, assembly lineAn assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create an end product. The assembly line was first introduced by Eli Whitney to create muskets for the U. Government. Henry Ford las, and mass production; the Venice Arsenal apparently produced nearly one ship every day, in what was effectively the world's first factoryA factory (previously manufactory is a large industrial building where goods or products are manufactured. Most factories are large warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. History of the factory The world'.