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By: Geoff Ficke

Since the beginning of time, until the mid-19th century the production of goods was carried out on a piece of craftsmanship by piece basis. Over these many centuries the center of the universe of the individual was the local environment where trade and business were conducted on a small scale, often barter basis. The idea of mass production was impossible to understand. Predominantly people lead lives of tremendous struggle and burden of simply trying to survive in a world centered on products agricultural, with few hard rudimentary tools produced different clothing and housing.

In medieval Europe, the creation of unions led to the production specialized goods. The guild members of a specific focus on the production of bricks, making tool, construction, metallurgy, transport, etc. These organizations were the forerunners of modern unions. They controlled who and how many could become members of the brotherhood. Guilds wages fixed prices. Usually they were approved or designated by the host governments, in exchange for adhering to local laws, taxes and regulations.

In early the 18th century in France began a movement among factory owners seeking to create more streamlined, cost-effective means of production. The idea of production mass was still almost a century away. In order to organize large-scale sources of industrial production interchangeable parts, would be built. This does not yet exist.

In the 18th century and French gunsmith Honoré Blanc proposes that the French army that mass produce muskets. To prove that he could do as he claimed, Mr. Blanc organized a demonstration to have their own distinctive character. Blanc had released the basic secret of mass production introduced by the use of interchangeable parts.

While acting as envoy to France during the War of Independence, Thomas Jefferson visited the shop Honoré Blanc. Jefferson was a man of the agriculture industry. However, he sent the details of the methods of Blanc Back to the United States and inadvertently helped accelerate the industrialization of his homeland.

The inventor Eli Whitney is credited with taking techniques Honoré Blanc and application of mass production of machines. Later, these methods were the basis for mass production of garments, machinery writing, mother engines, sewing machines and ammunition from hundreds of other products. Entire industries were born and industrialization and quickly took importance as the preferred means of production.

What of Honoré Blanc? In 1806 the French government decided Blanc, who was a threat to the control states of the means of production and a threat to old trades (guilds, unions). The production system that helped pioneer was shut down and outlawed. To this day, governments around the world fear that the mobility of production. Content with local laws are still common. Statutes, regulations, bureaucracies and Taxes are collected for the control and often hamper the production of goods more efficiently. certain categories of workers are protected and assisted, to the detriment of other workers. Winners and losers are chosen by the bureaucrats who have never produced a single widget.

The ability to exchange pieces is the axis of mass production and the success of capitalism. This system of production can not recognize the genius of business organization of the means of production, the system that produced so much, for many, at low cost.

About the Author:

Geoff Ficke has been a serial entrepreneur for almost 50 years. As a small boy, earning his spending money doing odd jobs in the neighborhood, he learned the value of selling himself, offering service and value for money.

After putting himself through the University of Kentucky (B.A. Broadcast Journalism, 1969) and serving in the United States Marine Corp, Mr. Ficke commenced a career in the cosmetic industry. After rising to National Sales Manager for Vidal Sassoon Hair Care at age 28, he then launched a number of ventures, including Rubigo Cosmetics, Parfums Pierre Wulff Paris, Le Bain Couture and Fashion Fragrance.

Geoff Ficke and his consulting firm, Duquesa Marketing, Inc. (www.duquesamarketing.com) has assisted businesses large and small, domestic and international, entrepreneurs, inventors and students in new product development, capital formation, licensing, marketing, sales and business plans and successful implementation of his customized strategies. He is a Senior Fellow at the Page Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Business School, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com - The Invention of Interchangeable Parts Terrified Government 200 Years Ago-and Today

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