8 sentences with “manufacturing”

In the mid-15th century, northern manufacturing also began to compete with Italian production.

While the UK enjoyed early leadership in industrial manufacturing, its share of world production had declined by 1900.

Prime Minister Thatcher also cut government subsidies to various industries, resulting in an explosion of unemployment in manufacturing areas.

Semi-skilled manufacturing and labour drastically lowered the price of textiles, and department stores offered large selections that many people could afford.

The aim of early factory owners and managers was to simplify the stages of the manufacturing process so that they could be performed by cheap, unskilled labour.

In a striking parallel, the efficiency of cotton production increased to keep pace with textile manufacturing in Britain, despite the absence of major new technologies, apart from the invention of the cotton gin in 1794.

The United States eclipsed Europe as the leading manufacturing power and the main source of exports in a surprisingly short period - from about 1870 to the early 20th century - driving Europeans to sometimes hysterical levels of fear of becoming economically obsolete.

Ford took up the idea, putting it to work in the service of car manufacturing. So, instead of each operator looking for a part, he brought the parts to each man. This was the assembly line, which started with individual parts and ended with an automobile. Along the line each man, standing still, performed a single task.