Despite its obvious connection, mass production was not a corollary to the modern Industrial Revolution. Various mass production techniques had been practiced in ancient times, from ceramic production in the Orient to manufacturing in ancient Greece....

Mass production (also called flow production, repetitive flow production, or series production) is the production of large amounts of standardized products on production lines. It was popularized by Henry Ford in the early 20th Century, notably in his...

MASS PRODUCTION By Grant Dunham Bucking conventional wisdom, this Dallas contractor has made smaller accounts his bread and butter. Scott Olden has a knack for exploding those common sense notions that people believe for no other reason than everyone else...

Manufacturing has long been the state's most worrisome business sector, so a report this week of recent strength is encouraging - as long as several cautionary observations are recognized. The superficial numbers are important in themselves. Massachusetts had 660,000 manufacturing jobs in...

Her Holiness Hadid This morning, the world discovered that wonderful Zaha Hadid will be showing--and selling--her first collection of haute furniture late this fall at Chelsea's Phillips de Pury. Why furniture? Why now? "Well, I mean, it started 20 years ago," the vacationing Ms....

The One Laptop Per Child Program, which hopes to spread sub-$200 computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, has reached a milestone with the start of mass production.The nonprofit spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said assembly lines for its "XO" laptops were fired up...