Chapter 61 The Benefits of Standardization
"In fact, I don't care about bigger profits. What I prefer is to recruit large-scale workers, let more people participate in production, and let more people afford food. This was also my grandfather's original intention." Xie
Field put his hands in his trouser pockets. In fact, it can be seen from this factory that Old Sheffield died before his ambitions were fulfilled. Otherwise, he would not understand the application of standardized production lines. He may have related plans in his mind and prepare to implement them in the future, but he did not.
Wait until that day.
The fame of standardized production lines has to wait until Ford uses it. Today's factories in the United States do not have prototypes of such production lines, but they have not yet had such a blockbuster effect. The assembly line divides a repetitive process into several sub-processes.
Each subprocess can operate in parallel with other subprocesses.
Ford's assembly line not only assembles cars on the assembly line, but also spends a lot of energy on research to improve labor productivity.
Ford applied this production line to automobiles, and Sheffield prepared to use it in agricultural machinery. Once this production line came out, hundreds of thousands of cars were produced in a year. The cost reduction brought about will inevitably defeat the world.
Some companies with insufficient capital can still have the effect of clearing up the market.
Squeezing out companies with insufficient capital is only one of the benefits. In Sheffield's view, standardized production lines have a greater benefit, that is, by making the division of labor more detailed, the scope of recruiting workers can be expanded. Workers with any qualifications only need to
You don’t have to be too stupid to be able to do this kind of standardized production line work.
In the previous small workshops and factories, once a mature technician took full control of the production process, he was in danger of starting his own business. For example, in many factories in the United States now, once the technicians inside have learned everything, they can just operate the machine.
If you can produce the same product and have access to capital, even a pig can take off.
These are potential competitors for the companies they used to serve. Sheffield favors standardized production lines because it allows workers to only care about what they are facing and know nothing about other production processes.
In this way, it seems that production efficiency has been greatly improved, and workers' wages will increase, but this increase is controllable. The danger is controlled within a certain range. Once these workers are no longer needed, Sheffield can let them go without mercy.
Go away and don't worry about them being used by competitors because ordinary workers like this are everywhere.
The history that only a few skilled workers can produce cars has been completely overturned. When a pair of black coal digger hands can also build sophisticated machines, it means that the work efficiency of the most ordinary manual worker has been improved.
Once the level of skilled workers is reached, skilled workers will no longer be valuable, and companies will get rid of the constraints caused by skilled workers.
So Sheffield is not just painting the cake now. This factory's bright tomorrow is indeed right in front of us. In a short time, although the situation of the workers cannot be compared with that of future generations, it will definitely be much better than today's situation.
The unlearned Sheffield opened and shut up about workers' rights, as if a strong moral halo arose out of thin air, and he could not stop talking, which attracted frequent glances from French girls who were always revolutionary.
If the boy in front of him had lived during the French Revolution, maybe Robespierre would have appreciated him and become a very important member of the Jacobins.
After a speech in which he could stand up and speak without pain in his back, Sheffield suddenly felt his mouth was dry, so he ate directly in the factory, facing the almost-formed firearms. The meal Sheffield ate was particularly delicious.
In the factory where every bullet took away a life, the heirs of this generation of the Sheffield family mingled with the workers, bursting into laughter from time to time, and even attracted the sideways glances of some child workers. Of course, these child workers also got their favorite candies.
, Cuban sugar.
Having finished instilling Chicken Soup for the Soul, Sheffield walked out of the huge factory building and made his debut at the Habsburg Gun Factory. Under the protection of a group of bodyguards, he joined his black-backed Yankee.
"It's sad to see those children working in the factory." Annie sighed softly, "They are so young, and they have to work with a group of adults."
"Cheap!" Sheffield glanced at the sentimental Anne and said, "Not everyone has your background. And there is nothing wrong with working earlier, which can let them know what the real world is like. At least they are better than in the
Students studying in school understand earlier, so that they will not have unrealistic fantasies and actually want to change their destiny?"
According to the itinerary, after breaking through the station blockage, he successfully led his own black back to the Sheffield Ranch. This ranch happened to be adjacent to the Indian reservation. To be fair, this reservation did not exist in the history of Sheffield's mind.
Indians should already be the happiest Indians in the United States, with a population of more than 20,000.
However, he did not see the Indians outside the ranch. He just walked around here and then turned back. This disappointed Anne who wanted to see what the Indians looked like. She could only look forward to the next opportunity.
After moving south to Houston, Sheffield finally had a basic understanding of his family's industry. Illegal business was greater than agriculture, animal husbandry, and factories. This was really a standard model of a rich man from a wealthy family.
But this is already good. After all, it is still there. Although the sparrow is small and has all the internal organs, it is just that it cannot be compared in scale with the vast industrial areas in the north. Thirty years ago, the situation in the southern states became even more unbalanced. During the Civil War, the south manufactured firearms.
There are only a few ammunition factories, and a large part of the weapons equipped are manufactured by the northern factories that were raided and captured at the beginning of the war.
A few days later, Sheffield was walking on the streets of New Orleans again with his vicious dog Yankee. But just after arriving here, Sheffield could clearly feel that the atmosphere here was completely different from the last time he came here. It seemed that the air
There is a tense atmosphere everywhere.
"Isn't it just a black young man who boarded a public train? Why does it seem like Britain has declared war on the United States?" Sheffield didn't know why. The black people he saw along the way seemed to be avoiding the eyes of white people, and their expressions were full of fear.
But this has nothing to do with Sheffield. I moved directly into Oak Manor without thinking deeply. This time I came to New Orleans mainly for two things. The first thing was to care about the plantation owners who returned from Brazil. The second thing was
Chapter completed!