The assembly line is a very commonly used manufacturing practice in which components are added to a product in a very specific order. We end up with the finished product at the end of line. One of the common examples of assembly line production is car manufacturing. An assembly line offers several advantages including a lesser need of highly skilled workers, uniform production, consistent quality, lower costs, easy replacement of broken parts of the assembly line, easy identification of breakdowns/bottlenecks, etc. Without the assembly line, we would need specially trained workers to carry out each task. Each part or component would have to be individually designed and made, thus bringing about a variation in the quality of items. Consistent quality manufacturing would be nearly impossible and manufacturing would take more time and resources. As such, the cost of each item would also increase.
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