In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...
As we celebrate America 250, we look at Henry Ford’s assembly line. Its introduction had far-reaching effects on both ...
Ford believed that time equaled money, and his Highland Park, Mich., factory, the first to make cars in a moving assembly line, is considered a revolution in manufacturing, which had a "profound" ...
To understand the significance of unboxed assembly, let's first consider its historical roots. The moving assembly line, introduced by Ford in 1913, revolutionized car production, slashing assembly ...