A Symphony of Motion:
a fully vertically integrated manufacturing process
Today offered a surprise. While walking to my usual internet cafe, I happened
across a wonderful example of a fully vertically integrated process - that
of preparing, mixing, transporting and pouring cement in order to build
a new home. Shown here are two perspectives: - that of the process from
the street -
and a sleeping auto driver
First - the assembly and cutting team:
and the stone team and security guard:
Next - the process of preparing the ingredients: sand, stone, cement and water
Shoveling, moving and dumping stone into the cement mixer's big big mouth
Now look carefully, with very curious eyes. How many parallel processes
can you identify? There is adding water, mixing, extracting, passing
cement on a platter to the team at the top, placing the platter on the
head of a woman transporter, and sliding the empty platter down a track
formed by two small poles (seen best in the first photo of this essay).
Take a morning stroll to the internet cafe
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