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What big innovation did you expect factory workers to create?
by twblalock 10y ago
What big innovation did you expect factory workers to create?
- nradov 10y agoThe famous Toyota Production System is designed around getting a continuous stream of innovations from factory workers.
- braveo 10y agoAre you implying factory workers aren't intelligent enough to come up with something new?
- nsp 10y agoI'd say they're less likely to invent the next big thing when working full time on an assembly line than otherwise.
- braveo 10y agoI've personally met several of these workers who have created things that ended up being very helpful for their employers. There's a reason why most of these companies have programs to encourage their workers to come up with these ideas and submit them to said company.
- riazrizvi 10y agoWell, in a Widget Factory there are all sorts. It's a hierarchy of workers with different skills. Typically though it is experienced/managerial/technical staff, who figure out how to improve things. Yes some of them do come out of the lower ranks. Pretty sure Henry Ford was just an engineer in someone else's company before he started making cars which lead him to inventing the modern assembly line as we know it today.
- eru 10y agoFord used to work for Edison. (According to Wikipedia.)