Essays on Assembly Line

The mass culture of mass production and consumption is referred to as Fordism. As a business model, it has created a culture of making more products in less time. Fordism has benefitted the American industry in the post-World War I era. However, it was not an all-encompassing economic model; it is beneficial in certain economic conditions. Fordism refers to the industrial revolution initiated by Henry Ford, the pioneer of Ford motors. He brought significant changes in the car production and added chapters to the academic books of management on how to be efficient. He recruited people specializing in one ...

Introduction

Throughout this discussion, we will analyze the core concepts of the Six Sigma, including its history, how it could be incorporated into an organization’s process improvement system to have a reduction in its product defects, aspects within an DMA/C process, and the overall importance of implementing the essentialness of Six Sigma as an initiative for quality control.

History

The Six Sigma process is considered to be a type of development which strives to offer consistent improvements and offer newer solutions from earlier initiatives or efforts. Although some of the methods, such as data driven decision making, business results focus, ...

Analysis of the Documentary Food, Inc. through the Lens of Ethical Theories and Ideas

Some may wonder whether the food choice is an ethical issue. After all, we make these choices at least three times a day and our individual decisions influence the global industry of food growth, production and processing. As Jones, Cardinal and Hayward remind us, we exist in society and are connected to other people. This is why our choices, in our case, the food choices, affect other people, and their decisions influence us as well (2006, p. 3). Various theories of ethics propose different ways of viewing the problems of food production and consumption and seek solutions in distinct ...

1. What is Joe Hinrichs trying to do and what are his objectives Joe Hinrichs’ was trying to perform a major process improvement effort targeted at Fredericksburgh over-engineered inefficient process. Hinrichs’ objectives included installation of more efficient machinery in the plant, redesigning of employee’s job responsibilities, and reducing worker idle time. Another objective was to attain the QS 9000 certification that was modelled by the European standard ISO 9000 specifically for the automobile industry to promote the development of standardisation in the industry across the world (Edmondson and Eastley, 1998).

If the objectives were not met, Fredericksburgh would ...

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc.

Answer 1

The car seat problem has incurred due to run ration of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Plant in USA that has resulted in a shortfall of about 45 cars in a single shift. Moreover, the cars were need to be completed before they could be shipped; therefore, off-line operations has become necessary. However, the major contributing factor to the problem is the car’s seat defect where the cars went on the company’s assembly line with all the defective seats. Moreover, there are two causes of car seat defects, i.e., flaw in materials and inappropriate ...

Life today is not as difficult as it used to be during the earlier times. During those times when technology was not yet fully developed, people spend too much time in doing their activities. Not only time was extensively spent but also energy. Sometimes, this resulted to problems due to human errors. To perform the activities effectively and efficiently, development of technology is conducted. Development and research activities have led to various technologies today. Thanks to technology and the continuous development, human activities are done easier. This purpose of technology has made people to have great dependence with it ...

For the last several decades, technological progress has had the great impact on the world around. Innovations that seemed to be a scientific fantasy just half a century ago now become part of everybody’s life. The results of technological progress completely change not only the humans’ way of life, but also manufacturing and business processes. One of such modern inventions is 3D printer. The 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, relates to various processes used for creation a three-dimensional object. It is based on the principle of “cutting” the virtual 3D object in a few 2D slices and then ...

Figure 1: Vehicle assembly plant (Source: Library of Congress, 1923)

Identification of the photograph

The photo selected shows a vehicle assembly plant. It is a digital image retrieved from the Library of Congress image gallery created on May 7, 1923. The photograph acts as a good representation of the impact of the industrial revolution to the Americans. The selection of the photo was based on its importance in revealing the readiness of the American people to practice innovations and promote growth in the process of industrialization. The United States ranks the top position regarding industrialization because of the ability of the country to ...

Introduction

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a technology whereby intelligent agents are studied and created (Poole and Mackworth 9). In this case an intelligent agent is a structure that senses its surroundings and acts in such a manner as to maximise its chances of success. The origin of AI was in 1956 where John McCarthy described it as a science of creating thinking machines (intelligent machines). The technology comprises of eight different areas that are currently researched on and are wide in their own rights. The fields are: expert systems; decision support and planning; speech recognition; natural language processing; computer aided instruction; ...