The Power Of The Assembly Line

In the article “Some Lessons From The Assembly Line” by Andrew Braaksma (2005), the author is expressing his experiences of working in a blue-collar job during the summer while going to college, with the goal of encouraging people and students to value higher education. The author realizes that blue-collar work has its disadvantages and that higher education is important, as he states,

The article "Some Lessons from the Assembly Line" by Andrew Braaksma, gives you ride a through the life of a blue-collar worker and the importance of investing in yourself with a college degree. The author discusses how spending summers working as a blue-collar worker at a factory in his hometown, makes him appreciate the opportunity to attend college. The author explains what his life would be like had he not decided to obtain a college degree and add value to his life. I can relate to the author from my own personal experiences with my job and learning how valuable a college education could be. I have missed several opportunities to advance and move up with my company because I didn't have a degree. Now that I’m in school I can also

In reading Braaksma's "Some Lessons From The Assembly Line" there are some great takeaways from the writing. The main idea is how important college education is, which is conveyed in a number of different ways. The author looks at the experience they had at assembling line job on their summer break and how awful it was. Comparing it to the easy-going lifestyle as a college student. We will look at these points and break down to see if there is something to be learned from the author's experience.

When I revisited “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line”, the author 's goal has changed for me. It has expanded and became broader. Because I see now that the author is trying to show the readers, the lessons he learned while working his summers away on the factory floor.Adjacent to that propose the author wanted to show the readers the different ways he learned the lessons, which made him appreciate his opportunity to go to college. My evidence for this is when the author refers to, “These lessons I am learning, however valuable, are always tinged with a sense of guilt." "At times, I feel almost voyeuristic, like a tourist dropping in where other people make their livelihoods. My lessons about education are learned at the expense of those

In the short essay "Some Lessons from the Assembly Line," author Andrew Braaksma explains how important it is to attend college. He writes the essay trying to inform young adults that they should continue their education after high school. Braaksma talks about his summer job working in a factory and how different the experience is. The author shares the difference between a blue-collar and white-collar job, how people don’t understand how a blue-collar be there one day and gone the next and how blue-collar jobs are manual labor with minimal pay.

In "Some Lessons From The Assembly Line", the author Andrew Braaksma, is identifying an alternative to higher education.  His work at the factory teaches him that people grossly underestimate the value of their time and education. While doing this he is not dismissing the value that the assembly/production line and factory adds to the world but instead acknowledging the privilege of engaging in and getting the most out of a higher education. In "Some Lessons From The Assembly Line", the author is acknowledging and I agree, there are different paths for everyone.

In Andrew Braaksma's essay, Some Lessons from The Assembly Line, he compares the differences of his summer jobs, in factories, to his college life. This article is about a college student who suddenly realizes what could possibly happen if he didn't attend college. He explains how working at factory jobs during his summer breaks have given him reasons to take his education more seriously than what he had been. The article's theme of Braaskma valuing his education is explaining how factory life had shown him what he might be doing if not in school, realizing he took his education for granted, and the valuable lessons he was taught. Braaskma's goal is to explain how he came to value his education more by being inspired by the factories that

Analysis When Henry Ford first developed the idea of the assembly line he was heralded as one of the most forward thinking men of his time, and without the assembly line we would no doubt not be as powerful a nation as we are today. The assembly line principle as it matured in industrial society however, proved to destroy workers creativity and stifle the very essence of human life. Growth and change. On an assembly line workers are degraded to automatons, performing the same tasks over and over and over.

The author's main argument in Some lessons from the assembly line is to show how going to college is a better life choice than working in a factory. The author wanted to show the readers the life lessons he learning from those hours spent in the different factories. How theses hours made him come to grips with the fact that we all will at one time or another have to make choices that will affect our lives. Life choices like whether or not to accept one way of life or another. The author's point of view is easy to agree with because the points he makes.

Since the current assembly line layout should achieving 100% line efficiency when running at maximum capacity of 215 units. Thus, to operate at target 300 units/day, the current assembly line needs to redesign.

To begin with, the total cost of production can be significantly reduced from the use of the assembly line. The assembly line is a method of production where the object to be made is moved across a conveyor belt or other moving mechanism and the workers are all next to it adding to the object one at a time as the object passes. First, when work is done this way, it is done much faster. Since the workers all do the same job over and over again, they can do it much faster than a single designated worker could. With repetition, they become so fine tuned with their job that they are able to do it as quick as possible.

Moving assembly lines began with Ford a century ago. Lean went into full manufacturing swing with Toyota. These new ways of thinking changed the principles of the automobile manufacturing industry forever. Now these principles and philosophy’s have made their way into other types of production. Boeing took these manufacturing principles and added them to their already successful 777 production line. To stay more completive and reduce costs manufactures are looking for ways to implement new ideas. Lean is a way to introduce methods to assist with these reductions, while moving assembly line reduces time and cost. For aircraft manufacture Boeing, it is more important than ever to stay more competitive and cost effective to keep their

−−−Preliminary study of an automotive assembly plant for high volume production(1300cars/day with 2 type of cars, 4 doors and 2 doors respectivly, and flexible in volume, 3 shifts of workers)

This system worked by simplifying the process into multiple, easy to do tasks, thus specializing workers in one specific , repetitive and easy to do task. This simplification of task gave birth to the assembly line concept.

Henry Ford’s idea of adapting the manufacturing process at Ford by putting it into an assembly line in order to enhance the efficiency of the production of his cars has allowed