Henry Ford Period 4
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David and Shay // Period 4
The Influence ofHenry Ford
• Henry Ford realized he'd need a more efficient way to mass produce cars in order to lower the price.
• He developed four principles that would help him meet his goal: interchangeable parts, continuous flow, division of labor, and reducing wasted effort.
• Over a 5 year period, Ford put these principles in play, improving and testing as he went along.
• Finally, in 1913, they came together in the first moving assembly line ever used for large-scale manufacturing.
• Ford’s legacy still lives on today as the father of modern assembly lines used in mass production.
At a Glance
• The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile came into popular usage.
• It was also known as the first affordable automobile allowing all Americans, not just the rich, to purchase a car.
• This was also the first automobile to be produced by assembly line.
• The Model T was the first automobile to be mass-produced in other countries.
• Ford is credited with putting America, as well as other countries, “on wheels” due to the low price and quick production.
Model T
• An assembly line is an arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed.
• The assembly line concept changed not only how cars and other things were made. It changed the way Americans lived as well.
• Ford made it possible to develop an automobile in under 90 minutes and mass produce thousands a day.
• Ford also paid his workers $5 dollars an 8 hour day, which was amazing at the time, and changed jobs across the world to pay higher salaries for less hours.
• Ford influenced the workplace of industries worldwide.
Assembly Line