Dear Stefan and Peter, your answer is correct. However it discusses something else. Your examples (brick, arrow, vase) are used somehow individually. Thus, I must modify my question. Even recently there are some car makers which produce ONE car per month. In that case each part of the care is produced individually and fitted together by hand individually. However, if you produce 10,000 or 100,000 pieces of a model a year, then the parts must fit together automatically. It needs a different logics and technology. This is the point I mean.
You completely misunderstand the point.In mass production, the manufacturer most produce identical elements. What you describe is that the manufacturer produces similar but not identical product in large quantity. From the point of view of technology, the two production methods have different logic and methods.
Your comment doesn't help at all. As you cannot step twice in the same river, there are no completely identical elements. However, we use the word identical in scheduling theory for machines. They are also not identical in the sense as you understand.
Daniel L. Babcock's Managing Engineering and Technology (second edition) mentions several examples. The first one in time is the Arsenal of Venice which had the ability of mass production as early as the 15th century. The book also mentions the 10,000 muskets I wrote earlier. They were ordered in 1797 from Henry Maudslay in USA. However, the book says that the technology can be based on a report of Thomas Jefferson from 1785 on Leblanc manufacture in Versailles.