{"id":11770,"date":"2014-07-08T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T02:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:25","slug":"rethinking-mass-production-why-making-things-one-at-a-time-is-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/rethinking-mass-production-why-making-things-one-at-a-time-is-more-efficient","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Mass Production: Why Making Things One At A Time Is More Efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"user_name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joannmuller\/\"> Joann Muller - <\/a> <span class=\"title\">Forbes<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<br \/> It\u2019s a basic tenet of mass production: Making things in batches is the most efficient way to manufacture anything. So why, then, is lean manufacturing evangelist Ted Duclos arguing that America can revitalize its manufacturing base by making things one at a time?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s counterintuitive in the minds of many,\u201d admits Duclos, president of Michigan-based Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies (a joint venture between Germany\u2019s Freudenberg and Japan\u2019s NOK). Having obsessively thought for years about how to improve manufacturing processes, he\u2019s convinced he\u2019s on to something big.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joannmuller\/2014\/06\/18\/rethinking-mass-production-why-making-things-one-at-a-time-is-more-efficient\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joann Muller \u2014 Forbes It\u2019s a basic tenet of mass production: Making things in batches is the most efficient way to manufacture anything. So why, then, is lean manufacturing evangelist Ted Duclos arguing that America can revitalize its manufacturing base by making things one at a time? \u201cIt\u2019s counterintuitive in the minds of many,\u201d admits [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64945,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions\/64945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}