The Blue Oval's first moving assembly line opened exactly 100 years ago, on October 7th, 1913, at the Highland Park assembly plant in Michigan. Henry Ford apparently got the idea from a previous tour of meatworks in Chicago and Cincinnati.
While rudimentary, this assembly line revolutionized automobile production, allowing the company to build a single unit in just six hours instead of twelve. Further upgrades in the ensuing months resulted in the Ford Model T being completed in a mere 93 minutes.
With the use of a winch, cars were pulled along the assembly line and thus came to the workers instead of the other way around. Ford not only increased its production capacity from 100 to 1,000 units a day, but also reduced the cost of a Model T from $850 to $260.
Source : liberation.fr
While rudimentary, this assembly line revolutionized automobile production, allowing the company to build a single unit in just six hours instead of twelve. Further upgrades in the ensuing months resulted in the Ford Model T being completed in a mere 93 minutes.
With the use of a winch, cars were pulled along the assembly line and thus came to the workers instead of the other way around. Ford not only increased its production capacity from 100 to 1,000 units a day, but also reduced the cost of a Model T from $850 to $260.
Source : liberation.fr
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