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Old 01-13-2015, 04:35 AM   #843 (permalink)
niky
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Economies of scale bring down the individual cost of parts.

Assembly line production lessens the man-hours required for each individual unit, because a workman doing a single repetitive build task will be more efficient than one that has to switch between a hundred different tasks.

And, of course, mass production allows for parts that would otherwise need hand-fabrication to be stamped out en masse.
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