Among other things, when management installed slightly brighter light bulbs, or changed the length of assembly-line breaks during the work day, they noticed that productivity picked up.

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Back home, my grandmother raised their baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line.

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Henry Ford perfects the assembly line, and then puts a generation to work in the factories of Detroit.

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Chaplin's 1936 film captures our frantic effort to keep up with the assembly line--and to stay ahead of work in general.

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Creating and harnessing feedback systems to perform useful activities is perhaps the most powerful way of organizing work since the introduction of the assembly line.

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Walking through the hangar of the final assembly line and catching a glimpse of one of the 1, 500 engineers that work there, it's almost as if the Airbus headquarters was in Lilliput, taking care of the plane that Gulliver could have traveled in.

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Mr. SEPIC: Assembly line worker, Oscar Johnson(ph), says he's proud to work at one of Ford's most productive facilities but he concedes he still hasn't figured out what to do next.

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Assembly Line Studios, where he works as a producer, earned a platinum record award for work on the Twilight movie soundtrack.

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As they toured the factory, you could see their innovative minds at work, probably calculating metrics and formulas to integrate their winning dashboard into the Ford assembly line.

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His photograph of the factory is a grainy blur: two lines of men at work, blacks and whites side-by-side and facing each other across the assembly line that runs up the middle of the picture.

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