More than a hundred years ago the moving assembly line changed the manufacturing process an awesome success story and one that could soon be ending One thing after the other They seemed to be unstoppable Ever since they were invented assembly lines have been run ning untiringly shortening manufacturing cycles and material hauling distances They ve been sav ing time space and money In the course of de cades mass production on assembly lines has consistently been streamlined standardized and perfected and propelled industrialization into a new dimension To achieve this the lines have been moving along at an increasingly accelerated rhythm diligently unrelentingly and dehumaniz ing work in the process because workers became helping hands to machines that set the pace and forced them to do the same monotonous things over and over day in day out However the splitting of work into individual segments didn t start with the modern assembly line but centuries earlier Assembly lines have been around for 500 years The pilot run of mass production split into individ ual process steps did not start with Henry Ford as many of us might think but much earlier in the late 15th century at the Arsenale Novissimo ship yard in Venice It s assumed that there the first ships were built by workers assembling standard ized components in a form of line manufacturing By Wiebke Brauer In this way one sailboat per day was purported ly launched What an efficient system and all of it without the help of wind or water mills steam engines or elec tricity that would later give industrial manufactur ing a real boost Ringing in the era of mass manufacturing in the 15th century shipbuilding at the Venetian shipyard Arsenale Novissimo distributed to various stations 35 In motion

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