Assembly Line

Examples of Assembly Line in the following topics:

• Automobiles, Airplanes, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress

  • This was largely due to the adoption by industry of the technique of mass production, the system under which identical products were churned out quickly and inexpensively using assembly lines.
  • Using the manufacturing assembly line system, in which individual parts or sets of pieces are added to a product at stations on a conveyor belt or other moveable line, entrepreneurs such as automobile tycoon Henry Ford were able to greatly increase productivity.
  • Telephone lines were strung across the continent, and indoor plumbing and modern sewer systems were installed for the first time in many regions.
  • Assembly lines revolutionized manufacturing in the first decades of the 20th Century.

• Efficiency

  • The employment of assembly lines, which used special-purpose tools and/or equipment to allow unskilled workers to contribute to the finished product
  • It is true that his assembly line was revolutionary, but it was in no way original.
  • This allowed for a very adaptable flexibility, creating an assembly line that could change its constituent components to meet the needs of the product being assembled.

• The Factory System

  • This invention, along with Eli Whitney's cotton gin, set the stage for the development of interchangeable parts and the assembly line, which would revolutionize manufacturing globally.
  • The American System, or Armory System, emerged in the 1820s and involved semi-skilled labor to produce standardized and identical interchangeable parts that could be assembled with a minimum of time and skill.
  • The use of interchangeable parts separated manufacture from assembly, allowing assembly to be carried out by sequentially adding parts to a product.
  • The assembly line, relying on these parts, became a particularly prominent feature of manufacturing in the late 19th and 20 centuries.

• The Idea of Economic Citizenship

  • In 1913, Henry Ford dramatically increased the efficiency of his factories by large-scale use of the moving assembly line, with each worker doing one simple task in the production of automobiles.
  • Young workers were trained and organizations were built for mass production, assembly line work, and factory jobs.

• Manufacturing

  • The "American System" featured semi-skilled labor using machine tools and jigs to make standardized, identical, interchangeable parts, which could be assembled with a minimum of time and skill.
  • Since the parts were interchangeable, it became possible to separate manufacture from assembly, which could then be carried out by semi-skilled labor on an assembly line - an example of the division of labor.

• Promoting Economic Development

  • The "American System" featured semi-skilled laborers using machine tools and jigs to make standardized, identical, interchangeable parts, which could be assembled quickly and with minimal skill.
  • Because the parts were interchangeable, it became possible to separate manufacturing from assembly, which then could be carried out by semi-skilled laborers on an assembly line—an example of the division of labor.

• Pennsylvania and Delaware

  • The colonial government, established in 1682 by Penn's Frame of Government, consisted of an appointed governor, the proprietor, a Provincial Council, and a larger General Assembly.
  • The Mason-Dixon line is said to have legally resolved vague outlines between Maryland and Pennsylvania and awarded Delaware to Pennsylvania.
  • In 1701, it gained a separate assembly from the three upper counties but continued to have the same governor as the rest of Pennsylvania.
  • Representatives from both areas clashed and, in 1701, Penn agreed to two separate assemblies.

• The Knights of Labor and the "Conditions Essential to Liberty"

  • Local assemblies began to emphasize cooperative enterprises, and to initiate strikes to win concessions from employers.
  • Powderly opposed strikes as a "relic of barbarism," but the size and the diversity of the Knights afforded local assemblies a great deal of autonomy.
  • The Wabash Railroad strike in 1885 was also a significant success, as Powderly finally supported what became a successful strike on Jay Gould 's Wabash Line.
  • The Knights of Labor had a mixed history of inclusiveness and exclusiveness, accepting women and blacks (after 1878) and their employers as members, and advocating the admission of blacks into local assemblies while tolerating the segregation of assemblies in the South.

• Governors and Assemblies

  • Colonial governors were appointed by the Crown, while assemblies were elected by local colonists.
  • The governor was invested with general executive powers and authorized to call a locally elected assembly.
  • In some colonies, the colonial assembly shared power with a royally appointed governor.
  • The colonial Assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
  • As the Revolution drew near, colonial assemblies began forcibly ejecting their governors from office.

• Settling the Middle Colonies

  • This document provided for religious freedom, no taxes without assembly approval, and a governor appointed by the proprietors.
  • From 1701 to 1765, colonists skirmished in the New York-New Jersey Line War over disputed colonial boundaries.
  • The Pennsylvania Assembly took this opportunity to request expanded power for elected officials.
  • In 1701, after he had troubles governing the ethnically diverse Delaware territory, Penn agreed to allow it a separate colonial assembly.