What began with Henry Ford’s assembly line in the 18th century has been taken a few steps further towards a highly automated production industry in the course of the last 40 years. Information technology has been implemented into factories in order to increase their production speed and to facilitate highly product customisation. As a consequence, a wider product variety could be produced to please the various tastes of the target customers. Nowadays, the car industry especially is using networking for their production processes; as a result, cars are available in hundreds of colours, sizes and styles, and offer even more […]
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