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Eli Whitney pushed the country away from craft production and toward
industrialization with the creation of the cotton gin which
demonstrated his ideas of mechanization and later with his idea and
design of interchangeable parts. |
Another major push toward mass production came from Frederick W. Taylor
as he popularized the principles of Scientific Management, advocating
time and motion studies and division of labor in the workplace. |
But the real credit for the launch of the first full-scale
“Mass Production System" goes to Henry Ford as he
incorporated many of these developing manufacturing methods into his
automobile manufacturing plant and realized great economies of scale
and other benefits. |
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