In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...

Ford believed that time equaled money, and his Highland Park, Mich., factory, the first to make cars in a moving assembly line, is considered a revolution in manufacturing, which had a "profound" ...

America 250: Celebrating the impact of Henry Ford's moving assembly line ...

To understand the significance of unboxed assembly, let's first consider its historical roots. The moving assembly line, introduced by Ford in 1913, revolutionized car production, slashing assembly ...