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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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Recent technological evolutions, globalization, and anticipated market circumstances have crucial clashes on manufacturing sector. As a result, continuous changes are being made in machine and manufacturing system known as industrial revolution. If we talked about the first revolution, it was around 17th century in which the power of steam engine was used in place of human power. The second revolution took place around 19th century AD as shown in figure 1, in which electrical powered machines were used. That time, Dedicated Manufacturing system (DMS) was being used for mass production . Fig.1 Development stages of industrial revolution (https://goo.gl/images/KHJ5uF) Engine, transmission parts, main components of automobiles was produced through dedicated transfer line. In other words, in DMS product variety is less and product volume is very high. As the time of third revolution (e.g. 1960), manufacturing sector was struggling wit