Characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of production line

The characteristics of the production line: each working procedure is completed by a specific person, and it is processed step by step, and everyone does a specific job.

Advantages: production will be faster, because everyone only needs to do one thing and is very familiar with what they are doing.

Disadvantages: people who work will feel bored.

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The emergence and development of production line;

At the beginning of the 20th century, American Ford first adopted the assembly line production mode. In his factory, the specialization division of labor is very fine, and there are as many as 7882 processes in only one production unit. In order to improve the labor efficiency of workers, Ford repeatedly tried to determine the workers needed on an assembly line and the distance between each process. In this way, the assembly time of each automobile chassis is shortened from 12 hours and 28 minutes to 1 hour and 33 minutes.

The main production organization mode of mass production is flow production, and its foundation is a facility system consisting of equipment, workplaces and conveyors, that is, flow production line. A typical assembly line is an automobile assembly line. Assembly lines are designed for specific products and predetermined production outlines; The main decision-making problems of production operation plan have been stipulated in the design stage of assembly line.

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