Relations of production

After 28 years, Into the Woods the stage production was finally turned into a movie. In 1986, the Into the Woods musical production was performed for the first time. The production featured two acts, telling the story of a baker and his wife trying to reverse the curse keeping them from having a child. In 2014, Into the Woods was remade into film production casting several superstars to play the roles of the singers. While the two productions are very similar, there are some differences that…

factory on December 1, 1913, effectively creating the first assembly line where many workers were given, small simple jobs to complete on each product instead of seeing an item from start to finish in production. Henry Ford amassed a generous amount of wealth because of the new method of production. Some may consider him a Robber Baron, an industrialist who prospered while exploiting the very workers that produced his fortunes. While others consider Ford to be a Captain of Industry,…

The Grand Rapids Chair Company represented a partnership between Grand Rapids sawmills and lumber mills. The site is notable for its adaptation both to changes in ownership and the demands of the furniture industry, through which it impacted the surrounding community of laborers. Sanborn Fire Insurance maps show several additions to the building since its construction, the two largest being the expansion to abut Monroe Street, apparent on the 1912 map, and the Baker Furniture addition, built at…

The documentary Side by Side looks at the ways that technology has evolved over time and challenged cinematographers with film. Movies have the effect of inspiring us, thrilling us, and for a temporary moment allow an escape. With the recent emergence of technology, it has challenged filmmakers in many ways. Film started in the 19th century, but a new medium has come onto the scene allowing new things that film never had before. With the invention of technology, we have digital cameras. A new…

Besides textile industry, industries born after the industrial revolution started from the Great Britain also changed Philadelphia. Paper, leather and textile industries were still very common. Meanwhile, heavy industries such as the coal and iron industry also emerged. The introduction of steam engine and railroad created a larger market coverage for Philadelphia’s manufacturing industries and help businessman sell their goods farther away. After World War II, specially 1970’s, the United…

Towania Mims MAN4584 Process Improvement Initiatives 1. When undergoing a process improvement initiative how important is it to use a process map and why? It is important to use a process map when undergoing a process improvement initiative because it provides a visual module of the process steps that can be analyzed and evaluated to make process improvements. Mapping the series of activities required also provides a detailed illustration of how each components correlates to one another to…

Many amazing things happened during the industrial revolution, but one of my favorite things that happened was the invention of the Model T and eventually the Model A. The inventor that made these things was Henry Ford. When he was a kid he used to take apart watches, to find how they worked then put them back together, when he was 13 he was a watch repairman. But he didn't want to stop there, when his mom died he left the farm he lived at, he said that he never liked farm work, just the mom…

English textile factories could kill people. They are not good at all and a lot of people got injured working in them including children and adults. How could people work in an environment where it is hard to breathe or where people were losing body parts like hands and fingers? Many of the workers got diseases and become ill however then they got others sick. The people who worked at the factories would completely disagree with what the people outside the factory said but the factories were bad…

One way Henry Ford was a Practitioner of the Gospel of Wealth was because of the thousands of jobs he provided and the high salaries given to his workers. Since the start of his company, Ford gave good wages to his employees. In the novel The Flivver King, by Upton Sinclair, the main character Abner was very hopeful about getting a job at the Ford Motor Company. When Abner is talking to Ford about getting hired, he explains that he works very hard at his current job but never gets promoted and…

c. From January to March 2018, Sergeant Garcia managed an inventory of class IX parts valued at $24 million. Applying his expertise, he worked tirelessly to optimize the requisition process by helping to restructure Global Combat Support System (GCSS–MC) reports that are being used in the newly developed demand forecasting model. His effort captures the necessary data points, such as Vendor Order Ship Time (VOST) that made it necessary to make replenishment buys. In the past, forecasting didn’t…