Essays on Mass Production

America was beginning to become a powerful and vital nation in the world in the twentieth century. Power was based on the assumption that Americans felt the abundant life, which was a promise to the world along with the concept and experience of freedom. However, freedom was not experienced by everyone at home in America. Black people felt oppressed and marginalized all the days of their life. In the 1920s, America was beginning to grab attention in the international scene. Europe was fading, while America was appearing as a dominant nation. However, this is not because of the popularity ...

Abstract

Any engineering and business project has to be handled with care if success is to be achieved. One has to know the best strategies to use in choosing the most appropriate decision for a project in terms of manufacturing and sales. Most importantly, the aim of every engineering project is to maximize sales and minimize costs. Therefore, Sullivan's case seems to advocate for a lean approach (waste mitigation and efficiency maximization) in handling his business. Apparently, Sullivan settles for two options, to either hire one or two assistants or purchase new equipment, that is, a router. The new machine ...

The Hershey Company was founded in 1894, and is an international leader in superiority and non-chocolate confectionary and chocolate associated grocery in the Northern American industry. The company also has a good reputation and is a leader in the gum and mint industry. The company’s leading rivals are Purdy’s, Nestle and Meiji. Hershey employs a number of strategies which have continued to ensure that the company remains ahead of its competition. These strategies include a competitive advantage, international markets, and measures of cost, productivity and opportunities. The company can steer its growth by seizing opportunities with the ...

The fashion industry is a very competitive industry which is saturated by numerous retailers. Most of these retailers provide similar products, a factor which increases competition in the fashion industry. Another source of competition in the industry is created by the various brands which allow retailers to sell their apparels in their stores. Customers in the industry and the market have a high bargaining power and can, therefore, be easily be swayed by competition (Atlasian, 2010). Consumers in the fashion industry look for the most popular, high quality, and recent brands in the industry. Most of the consumers believe ...

Introduction

This paper focuses on Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), driverless, and autonomous trucks and cars—collectively referred to as “driverless and autonomous vehicles” in this paper. The transportation industry is one of the most important sectors in the world economy. It ensures that goods and services can freely flow within unrestricted (i.e. trade-able) areas. This is allowed through the fast and efficient (as much as possible) of commodities and people. The premise is that the faster and more efficient goods and people can be moved from one point to another, the more booming the transportation industry will be. A booming ...

Discussion Question Week 5

Discussion Question Week 5 Chapter 7. Mass customization of products has become a common approach in manufacturing organizations. Explain the ways in which mass customization can be applied to service firms as well. Mass customization is the technology of using mass production to assemble goods efficiently and cost-effectively, and at the same time designing the products to fit into individual customer’s demands and specifications. Mass customization is a very common practice in the manufacturing industry although it can also be applied to the service firms (Gardner, 2009). The primary objective of using mass customization is to provide goods ...

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 ...

Despite great advances in medicine like the vaccine or the external artificial heart, it is easy for forget that all it takes in one microscopic bug to unravel our entire society. This catastrophe is depicted in the 2014 film Contagion. This science fiction thriller follows the events of a global pandemic and the societal effects of a calamity of this scale. Our heroes, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to the World Health Organization (WHO) must race against the incredibly high rate of transmission. The epidemiological process is performed over the course of four months from the first day ...

China and India’s Economy as a Neoclassical Growth Model.

It should be noted that the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model cannot be used to explain the macroeconomic variables of India and China. The model, however, provides the theoretical framework that aids in examining how the two economies’ digress from the standard model and in this way point out the market structure, organizations, and other variables that may have led to this digress (Huisken 239). An important variable that may help us understand this deviation and explain the differences in the growth of the two economies is the investment interest rates. India may have high level of investments but ...

The nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century have brought some dramatic changes in all aspects of human life. Technological advances, industrial development, new political and social movements have changed the common perception of the social structure, the rights of the different social groups, and the wealth distribution paradigm. In the United States, the period is known as the Progressive Era, where positive changes, improvements in all aspects of life were embraced by the majority of the population and, most of all, by the emerging middle class. Labor movement, socialist ideas and women’s suffrage were all products ...

Political Science

What is the most amazing thing about us? About human beings? The answer is simple- it is a never-stopping progress and development? Who would ever have thought that a man will be able to create a printer that prints a 3D human ear or anything one can ever imagine? Today it is a reality. Moreover, it one of the hottest topics discussed in the media. It's interesting, that the technological world introduced the 3D printing technology already in the 1986 year, but the technology wasn't that important and respected until 1990. At that time, its popularity didn't go beyond ...

Toyota Prius has redefined the automobile industry with its daring mass production of a car hybrid never witnessed before. It is 19 years of success for Toyota for its popular brand since its launch in 1997. Today, the company is fighting to maintain the market share following the launch of various competing car models. The competition in the car industry continues to stir war among the motor giants with other c-class cars entry in the highly polarized market. Every car manufacturer is fighting for a slice of the market share to be able to remain relevant and maintain brand ...

One of the heartbreaking truths about World War 1 was that millions of innocent men needlessly died because civilian and military leaders were slow in changing their war strategies and effectively employing new technologies. Thus, the war typified a fight between an inefficient nineteenth century warfare which witnessed lot of casualties on both sides, and a twentieth century technology-driven battle in which many decisive technologies were tested. As for America, the trend of industrialism and mass production of machineries and war equipments had begun fifty years prior to the onset of the war during the American Civil War. With ...

Slavery, Industrialization, and the Origins of Modern Consumer Culture

Industrialization was a pivotal moment in the creation of modern society. It can be considered a turning point for the modern world and the era that truly defined how the rest of the future of the world was going to play out. The Industrial Revolution introduced capitalism and mass production, which drive the current economy and have remained vital to the American, and global, infrastructure. This era of industrialized progress and prosperity began with the institution of slavery and the implementation of production within the major world powers, including Britain, France, and Spain. It later spread to countries all ...

“Weiwei, you know, we treat you like this not because you are a bad guy. It is just that you have too much influence on people” “Come to think who made me this influential. Read into the history of any hero; the hero does not become a hero, unless there is a monster”. Ai Weiwei has long gone beyond the definition of “Chinese artist”. Back in the 1980s, when he was a part of the “Starts” movement, he openly criticized the Chinese government. Because of his constant issues with authorities, Ai Weiwei balances the pressures to be both a ...

Design and Functionality

Introduction A suit is the modern gentleman's armor. There are many intricate facets of a suit that a company has to consider while crafting such an essential garment; mainly, its functionality. Today, the designers and producers of sportswear focus not only on the attractiveness of their clothes but also on the functionality of the apparel. The demands for this type of clothes has been elevated with the customer’s sophistication, increased competition in the market, the popularity of sport and healthy lifestyle, and the desire to combine comfort and functionality. Sportswear has become a necessary attribute for the sportsmen, ...

Module: Forensic Investigation CSI

Min Word count 950 words Weighting 50% (of overall diploma) Deadline: See Course schedule Key Points Answer what you are asked. DO NOT WRITE OFF-TOPIC. If you do, you will waste time, waste words and irritate the examiner. This goes for formal exams as well. Answer only what you are actually asked. Do not plagiarise (pass other authors’ work off as your own). Plagiarism will carry penalties. Any time you use a quotation or reference, use a proper citation (i.e. make it clear which book or author or article or newspaper etc. you are taking the quotation or reference ...

Introduction

For those people who have the knack to improve their diets and the surrounding, a shift from eating chicken and beef to consuming crickets, caterpillars and termites is a necessity. Insects are numerous, nutritious and ecologically bearable. In the contemporary world, persons have shunned the notion of including insects as part of their balanced daily diet, giving preference to the less nutritious and environmental unbearable food choices such as beef. The international organizations have been at the forefront addressing the need for the citizens of various nations to simulate the benefit of consuming insects. Additionally, this paper will argue ...

Tesla’s business model is very difficult to put into practice in the current general environment, because there are many factors that influence the development of technology and automotive industry upon which Tesla’s strategic decisions depend. The company introduced very innovative and costly cars and now it is important that in the key markets there will be a very strong upper middle class. If the global economy and the economies of the developed countries continue to grow, Tesla will have much many business opportunities. One more economic factor that is going to have a very positive impact on ...

Men Who Built America is a series about successful people whose industrial innovation influenced much their country and brought them a world-wide popularity. Most Americans believe that Henry Ford invented the automobile. Ford’s merit in that he created mass production. He invented the automobile business. When the businesses became economically organized, there appeared the demand for the managers, so that XX century became the time of management. Henry Ford built the largest industrial production of the early XX century and earned 36 billion dollars, its principles had a tremendous influence on public life in the United States. He ...

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 ...

Introduction

A suit is the modern gentleman's armor. There are many intricate facets of a suit that a company has to consider while crafting such an important garment; mainly, its functionality. Today, the designers and producers of sportswear focus not only on the attractiveness of their cloths, but also on functionality of the apparel. The demands for this type of cloths elevated with the sophistication of the customers, increased competition in the market, popularity of sport and healthy lifestyle, and the desire to combine comfort and functionality. Sportswear has become a necessary attribute for the sportsmen, active sport enthusiasts, and ...