Henry Ford standing beside one of his vehicles. (Image courtesy of Ford Motor Co.) The first moving assembly line at Henry Ford's Model T factory in Highland Park went into operation on Oct. 7, 1913, ...
In recognition of the National Association of Manufacturers’ Manufacturing Day 2021, let’s take a look at more than a century of advances in automotive manufacturing at Ford Motor Co. Ford founder ...
Say what you will about the industrial age assembly line, but there’s no denying one fact: It was crazy effective. All of this made it easy for managers to optimize the assembly process. For instance, ...