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Product assembly refers to the process of putting individual components or parts together to create a finished product.
In this context, your IKEA dishwasher isn’t actually a product, in the old school sense. Competition and price pressure have resulted in the situation where your dishwasher, is at best a collection of low quality parts co-located in the same area of the universe.
Initially, as factory-assembled, it all works just fine, before oxidation, fatigue and dirt collectively ensure that the parts, when dislocated for the inevitable repairs, can never be properly reassembled in a working fashion without the use of cable ties, glue and luck.
Entropy and time are related through the second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy in an isolated system can only increase or stay the same.
Entropy is a measure of disorder or randomness in a system, and the fact that it increases over time gives time its direction.
This is sometimes called the arrow of time. Fired precisely into the heart of your IKEA dishwasher by the fuckwits that designed it.
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