Mass production
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Although the term mass production is generally used to refer to Henry Ford's Ford Model T assembly lines, mass production in the publishing industry has been commonplace since popular prints of the Middle Ages, old master prints of the Renaissance and Johannes Gutenberg's Bible.
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History
Antiquity
“The Greeks had only one form of (mechanical) reproduction: minting coins.” --Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Die Griechen kannten nur zwei Verfahren technischer Reproduktion von Kunstwerken: den Guft und die Pragung. Bronzen, Terrakotten und Miinzen waren die einzigen Kunstwerke, die von ihnen massenweise hergestellt werden konnten. Alle tibrigen waren einmalig und technisch nicht zu reproduzieren.
See also
See also
- Batch production
- Craft production
- Job production
- Instant manufacturing
- Just-in-time
- Lean manufacturing
- Industrial engineering
- Operations management
- Manufacturing
- Mass market
- Outline of industrial organization
- Pilot plant
- Production, costs, and pricing
- Fast-moving consumer goods
- Ford Model T
- Second Industrial Revolution
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