Henry Ford's ideas may cut the cost and speed production of medicines

Ideas that Henry Ford taught a century ago about the advantages of continuous mass production are finding their way into the manufacture of one of the few remaining products still made batch-wise: the billions of tablets, capsules and other forms of medicine that people take each year. That change-over from making medicines in individual batches to continuous output was the topic of a keynote address here today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

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