This time in the factory game, instead making things by hand we created an assembly line to make the item. An assembly line is a chain of people who repeatedly assemble different parts of an item. The assembly line is overseen by a manager, and is usually capable of producing a lot of the item relatively quickly. However, in this case our efficiency was poor and our ability to handle large amounts of manual labor was tiny. It took twenty minutes before our first item, a pig, was created. However, it only took a few minutes thereafter to create about thirty pigs like the prototype original version. Compared to Part 1, Part 2 was very hectic but productive. In comparison to the efficiency level of part 1, part 2's efficiency level was off the charts. But even though we made a lot of pigs, the line was hard to control and manage. Sometimes parts didn't come fast enough and sometimes to many came at once. Often there were backups and misunderstandings leading to extra time wasted. Besides these faults, I'd have to say that part 2 is a better and smarter way to create a commodity.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
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