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Through the creation of the assembly line Henry Ford made the production much more efficient, in turn reducing the man hours of producing each vehicle.
The Factory System made manufacturing much easier in the U.S at the time. it become very necessary to American citizens and workers to process products faster. It was way more efficient, larger and superceded The Cottage Industry. also made possible the economies of scale. it basically decreased the amount of work needed to make American products.
Many people would say that the automobile industry in the United States was most responsible for advances in mass production. The key was in the thinking of Henry Ford. In order to make automobiles more affordable, his factories used the "assembly line" approach to make his cars. The workmen were assigned a specific job to do as each car was run along an assembly line. Instead of cars being "hand made" so to speak, they were made by the description of above. The end result was a less expensive car. This idea was then used for other manufacturing industries.
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The American Railway Association standardized practices to make train travel safer and more efficient. Most notably the association established standard US time zones, to minimize the chance of collisions.
make American industry more efficient.