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Industry 2.0 <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Power & Process<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Industry 2.0: Developments in Industry 1.0 manufacturing emphasised a stronger power source and a more efficient way to organise manufacturing work.<\/p>\n

The next industrial revolution, Industry 2.0, represented a surge of industrialisation from 1870 to 1914. During this time, manufacturing innovation benefitted from the discovery of a newer, more potent energy source and new, more efficient manufacturing and post-production methods.<\/p>\n

Also known as the Technological Revolution, Industry 2.0 was a time when the innovations of the past became the useful knowledge of the late 19th and early 20th century. This knowledge, when combined with new ideas and economic and social incentives, enabled manufacturers to produce consumer and capital goods at an unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n

Industry 2.0: Operations take centre stage<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h3>\n

In the late 1700s, commercial incentives made manufacturers very interested in the idea of efficiency and how to achieve it. Most of the big ideas driving Industry 2.0 were related to process and ultimately profit.<\/p>\n

Electrified manufacturing methods \u2014 In the mid-to-late 1700s, coal-based steam power replaced human effort and waterpower during Industry 1.0. Later, energy-dense oil and gas-powered electricity replaced steam power in factories.<\/p>\n

Using electricity in manufacturing made business sense. First, it was cheaper than steam. It also enabled a more efficient arrangement of machine tools along the assembly line on the factory floor.<\/p>\n

The phenomenon of electricity was old news\u2014incandescent light bulbs hark back to 1809. However, building a useful infrastructure that delivered safe, reliable electrical power was another matter. That accomplishment came in 1882, when figuring out how to deploy and use electricity in factories required decades more time and effort.<\/p>\n

Mass production \u2014 Steam-powered textile manufacturing made it clear that machines could produce more goods much more quickly than human-based production. Mass production became the umbrella term for the high-volume manufacture of products that used standardised parts, techniques, and machinery.<\/p>\n

Experience with the machine tool industry and creating standardised parts (both late-18th-century innovations) provided useful knowledge that enabled the development of assembly-line mass production about a century later.<\/p>\n

Assembly line production \u2014 Mass production marked the change from time-consuming, file-and-fit production methods to time-saving assembly methods. Assembly line production was another significant change in manufacturing process design. A specialised type of mass production, assembly line manufacturing uses ideas developed before 1870:<\/p>\n