Mass production involves producing goods in large quantities at low cost per unit using assembly lines and efficient production methods. It is characterized by mechanization, organized material flows through production stages, quality standards, and specialized labor divisions. Though Eli Whitney is often credited, the concept developed earlier in Europe and the US. By the late 19th century, the American System was used to make many industrial goods like firearms and textiles. Henry Ford further refined mass production with his moving assembly line, reducing production times for items like flywheels. While lowering costs and increasing output, mass production lacks flexibility and standardizes products.

1. PRESENTED BY
KRISHNA KUMAR SINGH
7 SEM
D.O.S.T

2. Mass production is the name given to the
method of producing goods in large
quantities at low cost per unit.
The mass production of items is often done
by using an assembly line, or another efficient
means of production.
But mass production, although allowing lower
prices, does not have to mean low-quality
production.
DEFINITION

3. The mass production process itself is characterized by
1. mechanization to achieve high volume,
2.elaborate organization of materials flow through
3.various stages of manufacturing,
4.careful supervision of quality standards,
5.minute division of labour

4. The system of manufacture involving production of
many identical parts and their assembly into finished
products came to be called the American System,
because it achieved its fullest maturity in the United
States.
Although Eli Whitney has been given credit for this
development, his ideas had appeared earlier in
Sweden, France, and Britain and were being practiced
in arms factories in the United States.
HISTORY

5. By the third quarter of the 19th century, the
American System was employed in making small
arms, clocks, textile machinery, sewing machines, and
a host of other industrial products.
The assembly line: Though prototypes of the
assembly line can be traced to antiquity, the true
ancestor of this industrial technique was the 19th-
century meat-packing industry in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
in Chicago, where overhead trolleys were employed
to convey carcasses from worker to worker

6. Drawing upon observations of the meat-packing
industry, the American automobile manufacturer
Henry Ford designed an assembly line that began
operation in 1913.
The result was a remarkable reduction of
manufacturing time for magneto flywheels from 20
minutes to five minutes

7. Moving Assembly Line

8. One Day’s Production

9. 1. First, tasks were minutely subdivided and performed
by unskilled workers, or at least semiskilled workers,
since much of the skill was built into the machine.
2. Second, manufacturing concerns grew to such size
that a large hierarchy of supervisors and managers
became necessary.
3. Third, the increasing complexity of operations
required employment of a large management staff
of accountants, engineers, chemists, and, later,
social psychologists, in addition to a large
distribution and sales force.
EFFECTS ON THE ORGANISATION OF
WORK

10. 1. The time taken to manufacture a product using
mass production is shorter than when using
traditional methods.
2. The probability of human error and variation is also
reduced, as tasks are predominantly carried out by
machinery.
3. A reduction in labour costs.
4. An increased rate of production
ADVANTAGES

11. 1. Mass production is inflexible because it is difficult to
alter a design or production process after a
production line is implemented.
2. All products produced on one production line will be
identical or very similar, and introducing variety to
satisfy individual tastes is not easy.
3. The starter cost for the machinery can be expensive.
DISADVANTAGES

12. Mass production allowed the evolution of consumerism
by lowering the unit cost of many goods used.
CONCLUSION

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