Part one of term paper
An excellent example of manufacturing in business is . During the earlier part of this century, tobacco was a hand picked and manufactured crop. Thousands of people were employed by and factories were all over the south. The cigarette-making process, once done entirely by hand, either in these factories or by the consumer, is today fully a ...

Part two of term paper
... 30 or 60 cartons to a case. The first step in the manufacturing process is tobacco selection. A regrader inspects the tobacco in a unique flip system that uses a slow, overlapping conveyor system before it enters actual production. The system allows the top side of the tobacco to be inspected as it moves along the top conveyor. As tobacco falls to the bottom conveyor, the pile is flipped and the bottom of the pile is inspected. Damaged and foreign material is removed from the tobacco piles at ...