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FORD MOTOR CO.
from The Ford Factory
by neelnaregal
Henry Ford’s first vehicle rode on four bicycle wheels and was powered by a four-horsepower engine. Building his first experimental car in a workshop behind his home in Detroit in 1896, got him recognition in the Automobile world.
In 1899, he joined a group that founds ‘The Detroit Automobile Company’. The investors who quickly began to lose confidence as the felt the vehicles produced were unsatisfactory. By 1901 the company runs out of business.
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1903, Ford Motor Company is incorporated. The company had 12 partners who put together the company’s first car : The Model A. With its quick success, Ford setup its first international plant was built in Ontario,Canada, right across the Detroit River from Ford’s existing facilities.
Henry Ford’s Model T in 1908 put the world on wheels with a simple, affordable, durable automobile. Ford sold 15 million Model Ts before ceasing production in May 1927, making it one of the best-selling vehicles of all time, and arguably the most famous car in the world.
“ Our focus on the freedom of movement helped create the middle class with the $5 wage, revolutionized manufacturing with the moving assembly line and got the whole world moving with the first vehicles built for everyone. ”
- Henry Ford
Fordism
The manufacturing of process of the cars at the factories of Ford was coined the term “Assembly line Production”.
An assembly line is a production process that divides up the labor process. It breaks up the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence. So instead of a linear process of a Production Line, the new Assembly line part and components of the finished producted were added at a particular sub-station.
Henry Ford took that idea and implemented the conveyor belt system used in other industries to mass-produce the Ford Model T on the very first iteration of the modern assembly line in 1913.
Ford’s innovation eventually reduced the Model T’s chassis assembly line from 12.5 to 1.5 hours, and in doing so precipitated a revolution in manufacturing. The accelerating speed with which Ford could produce cars helped him continue to lower the price of the Model T.
