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turning raw materials into things you'll eventually throw away, but faster now
means the process of making goods from raw materials, usually at scale, usually with machines doing what hands used to.
from from latin manu factus, made by hand, coined ironically just as factories made hands mostly optional.
word ironyliterally means handmade, means the opposite now
ford's line1913 moving assembly line cut car build time 12x
china shareproduces nearly 30% of world's manufactured goods
robot densitysouth korea has over 1000 robots per 10000 workers
for instance
ford river rouge — 1928 detroit plant turned raw iron ore into finished cars on one site
foxconn shenzhen — assembles most iphones, employs roughly 200000 people at one campus
toyota production system — 1950s japan invented just-in-time, copied by every factory since
tsmc taiwan — makes over 90% of the world's most advanced computer chips