The History of Mass Production

History of Mass Production

Henry Ford may have been the first to introduce and develop mass production in modern times. He was not the first to conceive of the idea. The first documented mass production factory was the Venice Arsenal, which was said had the ability to produced almost one ship every day. Moving forward in time to the mid-1400s Johannes Gutenberg's Bibles were mass-produced. Then during the Industrial Revolution, Portsmouth Block Mills used mass production techniques to manufacture ships' pulley blocks. And in 1784, Oliver Evans of Philadelphia, installed a power-driven system in which grain, moved by conveyors and chutes through the various milling and refining stages, was automatically processed into flour. He called it continuous flow process. By 1855, both Eli Whitney and Simeon North were using templates to produce identical parts and the British government ordered a complete set of machine tools from the United States for a gun factory. Then only sixty some years later, Henry Ford using Evans concept of continuous flow production modernizes mass production, and the rest is history.



 

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