Steinway & Sons
1. Introduction
The purpose of this report is to briefly define and analyze how Steinway & Sons incorporates various production operations standards within their everyday business functions. I have chosen the Vertical assembly process of the model K-52 that values and practices Steinway & Sons strategic vision.
2. History
German immigrant Henry Engelhard Steinway in a Manhattan loft on Varick Street founded Steinway & Sons in 1853. Henry was a master cabinetmaker who built his first piano in the kitchen of his Seesen, Germany home. By the time Henry established Steinway & Sons he had built 482 pianos. The first piano produced by the company, number 483, was sold to a New York family for $500. It is now displayed at New York Citys Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Steinway & Sons. ?Steinway History?)
Over the next forty years, Henry and his sons, Henry Jr., Albert, C.F. Theodore and Charles, developed the modern piano. Almost half of the companys 114-patented inventions were developed during this period. Many of these late nineteenth-century inventions were based on emerging scientific research, including the acoustical theories of the renowned physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. (Steinway & Sons. ?Steinway History?)
Steinways revolutionary designs and superior workmanship began receiving
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