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    There was a documentary film about Henry Ford who was a famous industrial pioneer during the early industrial era. According to the film, one of the Henry Ford’s greatest industrial inventions was assembly line for mass production. Assembly line is a tool many manufacturing industries use to allow the product come to a person instead of forcing a person to move around. The assembly line is a manufacturing process which move products from workstation to next workstation where parts are added in sequence

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    Henry Ford known as “mass production”. This being created in the 1910’s was brought to its best by henry ford creating more, easier, better-paying jobs for anyone. Mass Production techniques in industries and factories allowed larger numbers of products to be created more easily with less effort, better wages for employees, and cheaper retail costs. The most popular method of mass production was the efficient use of the Assembly Line, as used by Henry Ford and the production of the Model T automobile

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    Concept Explanation Mass production and customization used to be considered opposites and were considered to be opposite ends of a spectrum (Beaty, 1996). Mass customization allows that company to provide products meeting unique specifications while at the same time achieving a low manufacturing cost by using mass production technologies to provide one-of-a-kind products (Daft, 2013; Welborn, 2007; Pine & Gilmore, 1997). This idea has been around for over a decade, but just recently has technology

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    Mass Customisation in Architecture Introduction Mass customisation implies a relationship between an individual and the production process. For mass production to occur a process must be created which aims to fabricate a product in the easiest and the least redundant way. This process is highly designed to create products which are virtually identical in mass quantities (Image 01.1). The final outcome caters to the product rather than to the individual. A process, on the other hand, which allows

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    In today’s world, Mass Markets have lost its appeal. The time where mass production of goods and services for all customers are long gone. Mass Marketing is paving way for Niche Marketing using more personalised approach. Mass Markets as we know are large unsegmented or undifferentiated market where products and services are offered to every consumer using mass marketing techniques. On the other hand, Mass Marketing is referred to as the market coverage approach where companies use one particular

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    Q1: Do the traditional accounting practices that the Topeka plant adopted in 1979 to support its mass production process have value in a lean environment? Explain the specific reasons that support your answer. In general, we do not think that traditional accounting practices that Topeka plant adopted in 1979 to support its mass production would fit into the lean accounting environment. The differences between the two accounting methods make the traditional accounting hard to work for the lean environment

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    Ford is a prestigious motor company with a successful production history spanning more than a century and involving several influential automobiles, most notably the iconic Model T. Indeed, the Model T was a supreme mechanical innovation, a remarkable marriage of “technical design and social context” (Boyer & Dubofsky 275). Although simple in design, and relatively expensive, the vehicle performed very well against competitors’ models, surviving the primitive roads and almost nonexistent repair

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    In their book The Story of Lean Production – Toyota’s Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That is Revolutionizing World Industry, published in 2007, James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos generally introduce and discuss about three industrial manufacturing methods from the very first approach to the most current one, which are craft production, mass production, and lean production respectively. Basically, their main points are focusing on lean production and its development as well as

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    Book Summary The Story of Lean Production – Toyota’s Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That is Revolutionizing World Industry In the beginning of the book, the authors generally introduce three kinds of the worldwide industry in its production system’s development from the very first one to the newest approach, which are craft production, mass production, and lean production respectively. The Industry of Industries in Transition. they look through the history of the automobile manufacturing

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    Book Summary In the book “The Story of Lean Production – Toyota’s Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That is Revolutionizing World Industry”, published in 2007, James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos generally introduce and discuss about three worldwide industrial manufacturing methods from the very first approach to the most current one, which are craft production, mass production, and lean production respectively. The Industry of Industries in Transition. they look through the

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