Fords first assembly line
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Ford Motor Car Company History
In 1913, the Ford Motor Company manufactured nearly 200,000 cars, more than half of the automobile production in the U.S.
Fred Colvin, author of the American Machinist series, wrote that Ford could produce a Model T every forty seconds because the company's engineers focused on "principles of power, accuracy, economy, system, continuity, and speed.
Fords first assembly line
One element of the famous Ford system was still missing: the assembly line. Ford workers were still completing the final assembly of automobiles by moving in crews from one chassis to the next, each of which sat fixed on a wooden stand.
Other workers delivered parts to the assembly stations. The Highland Park plant used the same method for assembling individual components, like engines.
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In 1913, however. Ford engineers began experimenting with the assembly-line concept, precursors of which existed elsewhere in American industry. For example, Henry Ford is well-known for attributing the germ of the idea to