The Assembly Line” Classroom

Car Assembly LineIn History, we’ve been discussing Henry Ford and how he revolutionized transportation with the implementation of the assembly line in the creation of his vehicles. In 1908, Henry Ford turned his sights towards the assembly line as a means to make automobiles more cost-effective and, for that reason, a lot more accessible to the general public. The implementation may possibly have been a bit primitive, but Ford was on the cusp a thing huge: applying the ideas of the moving assembly line to the complicated, costly approach of automobile production.

Contemplate the assembly of a auto : assume that particular actions in the assembly line are to set up the engine, set up the hood, and install the wheels (in that order, with arbitrary interstitial methods) only one particular of these steps can be carried out at a time. Ford’s vision was to manufacture a vehicle that would be affordable …

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