Technology
The combination of skills, knowledge, abilities, techniques, materials, machines, computers, tools, and other equipment that people use to convert or change raw materials into valuable goods and services
Mass production
The organizational technology that uses conveyor belts and a standardized, progressive assembly process to manufacture goods
Craftswork
The technology the involves groups of skilled workers who interact closely to produce custom-designed products
Programmed technology
A technology in which the procedures for converting inputs into outputs can be specified in advance so that tasks can be standardized and the the work process can be made predictable