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Originally Posted by niky
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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Economy of scale definitely brings the costs down significantly by streamlining the process, reducing overhead, and reduces the time between each individual product coming off the line. (Total Build Time Reduction)