in our country there are many different kinds of factories making many different  in factories people work together and machines to make many of the products that help us live better and easier the products made in a factory take a great deal of planning preparation and work on the part of many people let's visit a typical factory in this toy factory millions of toys are made toys like these honey bears musical clocks and merry go round but now let's see how this factory plans for and produces a new product let's see how a factory works this is the factories planning board these men plan or decide what the factory show me at today's meeting a number of ideas are presented one man suggests that the company manufactures a jack in the box and he draws a rough sketch to show what it might look like then the idea is improved upon why not make a jack in the box with music a kind of jack in the music box sketches of this idea are sent to the experimental department i work here in this department makes a sample or experimental model of the new toy this is what the jack in the music box will probably look like if it is finally manufactured the model is now taken to the art department here an artist makes rough sketches of pictures that may be used to decorate the outside of the jack in the music bo then he takes his sketches and the decorated box back to another meeting of the planning board the man on the planning board check the completed model they look over the sketches deciding which ones they want to appear on the new toy the jack in the music box is finally approved for production engineering is the next step in the production of the toy in the engineering department highly trained engineers plan exactly what parts will be needed and how the toy will be made they also design the tools that would be used make the parts for the toys the engineering departments plans are put on the blueprints the head of each factory department will read these blueprints and be able to tell his workers want to do cent goes to the tooling department here tool and die workers make the machines or tools that will be needed to manufacture the parts for the toy here are some of the tools being made another set of blueprints goes to the purchasing department this department will buy the raw materials the cloth springs metal sheets and other things that will be needed to make the new to finally extra workers must be hired to do the work the man in charge of the personnel department is interviewing a woman who wants a job the raw materials to make the toys arrive at the factory steel tubing coils of wire workers arrive at the factory to do the many different job now all the tools have been me the machinery has been moved into place the parts for the jack in the music box are coming off the production line this machine is called a shearer it cuts off strips of metal over the body of the toy this automatic punch press is finishing the chime bar for the jack in the music box the chime bar makes the music knol the parts of been made and the workers are ready to assemble all put together the jack in the music box this is the assembly line each worker here does one special job adding her part to the toy as a passes let's start at the beginning of the assembly line and follow the process through this is the first assembly operation this woman is using a machine which bends the flap metal sheets into the can body that would be used for the jack in the music box the cans move down to the next worker on the line this worker joins our rivets in the parts that make the music this is what they look like in  this girl puts on the crank and the rubber belt that make the music parts w then she checks the music making part of the toy now the clowns head is made ready for the new toy i work or glue as i have on my head then the head is attached to the long spring that will make it pop up the spring with its head is placed inside the suit and the the suit is clipped around the clowns and the toy is tested to make certain that it works finally completed jack in the music box is placed inside a cardboard container ready to be sold this is the sales department of the factory the toy is being sold and orders are coming in here is an order for thirty six do shipping containers filled with toys are loaded into railroad cars trucks are loaded to  the toys are sent on their way to hundreds of stores everywhere you have seen some of the steps that must go on in almost any factory in order to manufacture a product first the planning board plans the product next the experimental department and they are department make the first model now the parts are made on the production line next the parts move down an assembly line and are put together