Posts Tagged‘manufacturing’

The history of modern manufacturing

Photo by CC user Lewis Hine (public domain) on Wikimedia Commons Humans have been building tools to help improve their lives since the Stone Age, but it is only in the past couple of centuries where manufacturing has truly become a modern process. Below, we will briefly go over the history of modern manufacturing, with an eye on where current trends will take this sector of society… The Industrial Revolution: where it all started Manufacturing has been around ever since tools were invented to assist artisans with building tasks, but it didn’t truly become modern until the Industrial Revolution began. Invention…

How to Select a Parts Manufacturer Online

Everything in the world is online nowadays. This has really improved the world for many of us, as prices for just about everything have dropped due to increased competition, and waiting times have been seriously reduced. Remember the days when, if you ever needed a specific part, you would have to drive to faraway corners on industrial estates to visit different parts manufacturing companies, only to then have to wait several months before you actually received your item? And do you remember how much you would cringe while you waited for them to tell you the exorbitant price? Well those…