...Ford Assembly Line! Word Count: 1,811 I. Image of my innovation that I was allocated The Ford Assembly Line II. The innovation Product and the Process: The ford assembly line is a manufacturing process developed by Ford, which quickened process of producing cars in the early 1900’s. The product that it first helped was the car a Ford Model T. Henry Ford and many other individual’s whom were involved in Ford, came up with the idea of the assembly line in the years between 1908 and 1915 and consequently made the assembly line famous in the following decade for mass production throughout the world. They based their idea on how a slaughterhouse was run, with a conveyer belt moving animals while they were being butchered. The process of the Ford Assembly Line is as follows parts are added to the product in this case the Ford Model T, in an organised manner (for example engine first, then hood, and then the wheels) in which creates the car in a much faster fashion than if it was done by having the car in one spot and waiting till one aspect of the car was done to do the next one. Having people ready at each individual station waiting for the next car to be moved to them too add whatever is needed from the station that they are working at. No heavy lifting done with cars being moved along. Car pieces moved throughout the factory on conveyor belts. III. The Impact of the Ford Assembly Line: A radical innovation. The impact of this innovation was huge, not only...
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...One of the biggest industrial innovations during the industrial revolution was the assembly line. The assembly line was a technological and institutional innovation thought by Frederick Taylor and applied by Henry Ford in order to automate the control of work (Taylorism). What Taylor basically thought was the division of labor or how to separate the mental from the physical labor. The first thing that will be discussed is a body of arguments that tend to ignore the distributive aspect of the assembly line, such as increased productivity, higher wages, more jobs created and price cuts. The second thing discussed will be a body of arguments discussed by examining the actual distribution of costs and benefits of the assembly line across different...
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...Henry Ford, was an American industrialist who was born in the early 1860. As a young boy, Henry worked as a farm boy and he was very unsatisfied. At the age of 16, he decided to leave home to work in as a machinist in Detroit. In later years, he learned how to skillfully operate service steam engines. Henry Ford was also, the sponsor of the development called the Assembly Line. Henry Ford soon got married in 1888 to Clara Ala Bryant and had their first child named Edsel Bryant Ford. Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, either way you’re right.” He made this quote valid by saying in the quote ‘Think.’ When he was a tad bit younger his father gave him a pocket watch that he soon took apart. Henry immediately...
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...revolution. This would not have been possible if not for Ford and his revolution of the motor industry via the assembly. As the car industry grew, it created its own sort of revolution. This would not have been possible if not for Ford and his revolution of the motor industry via the assembly line. Karl Benz founded Benz & Cie. (the first major automobile manufacturer in the world) thereby paving the way for all future automobile manufacturers. Although the first internal combustion engine was made in 1807 by Isaac De Rivaz, Benz made the first practical internal combustion engine. Benz made his first car the Benz patent-motor wagon in 1885. Benz made three versions of this, the third gaining the attention of people worldwide. Between 1889 and 1899 the number of people Benz & CIE employed increased almost tenfold. In 1899 Benz & CIE was the largest car manufacturer in the world, having produced 3,400 automobiles thus far. Karl Benz brought automobiles and their uses to the public’s attention and inspired many people to start their own automobile related businesses. At this time automobiles were still out of reach for the majority of people due to the cost to produce each car. Henry ford (is/was/0 not the first person to use assembly lines. Henry Ford was however the first person to adapt the assembly line method for mechanical assembly. Fords assembly lines were made to achieve maximum efficiency by doing four things; 1) Minimize the distance that parts and people...
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...Chaplin plays as factory worker employed alongside other workers on a typical Fordist/Taylorist manufacturing assembly line. In the first 20 minutes of the movie Chaplin portrays in detail what non-mainstream organization and management theorists see as the alienating and degrading nature of the detailed division of work in a modern 20th Century factory environment. The movie shows how under Fordist production methods workers are subjected to close senior management and first-line management surveillance and control at the point of production, made possible by a moving-production-line which allows managers to determines the pace of work (control over the speed at which workers perform their roles) and the duration of work (how long workers remain at their work stations between breaks). When the Fordist moving manufacturing-line was invented in 1911 it was celebrated as something of revolution in production. It allowed management to radically improve productivity by exercising close constant control over the pace of production, the flow of parts through the production process, and the role and performance of each individual worker along the assembly line. This form of production brought into being the systematic ‘mechanization’ of work designed for the purpose of improving factory output and efficiency. The performance of productivity benefits of Ford’s assembly line system of mass-production for mass-consumption subsequently caught the imagination of other manufacturers throughout...
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...Co. Shaun Mains Alvernia University The Ford Motor Company is an American based automobile manufacturer that was founded in 1903 by the late Henry Ford. The company pioneered the early integrated moving assembly line, fought and beat early gasoline powered automobile patents, and even survived the Great Depression. Today, Ford is the fifth largest automobile manufacturer in the world, based on sales, and is the largest family controlled company in the world (History). Henry Ford, along with 11 other investors, founded Ford Motor Company on June 16th 1903 (History). In its early years the company produced the Model A, S, K and most notably, the Model T. The popularity of the Ford Model T from 1908 through 1913 is what fueled the development of the integrated moving assembly line. The assembly line simplified the manufacturing process and made mass production possible (Company). The chassis assembly line alone went from 12.5 hours to produce a chassis, down to 1.5 hours (Company). The Ford Model T was a huge success for the automobile manufacturer. The vehicle was priced significantly lower than the competition largely in part to Henry Ford’s insistence on building integrated manufacturing plants and the utilization of the integrated moving assembly line. The company’s main goal of the time was to build a vehicle for the everyday American, and the company priced their vehicles accordingly. This achievement allowed even the poorest of Americans to purchase a vehicle...
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...PCB iii) multi layered PCB PCB is commonly used in making electronic devices such as computers, home entertainment equipments, telephones, etc. 1.1 Company Background X Electronics (M) Ltd. is a subsidiary company build in north Malaysia during 1990. X Electronics (M) Ltd. headquarters are in Singapore. It started the Malaysian branch operation in 1991. X Electronics specializes in PCB production process from design and development stages to assembly stages. X Electronic caters flexible production whether it is mass volume or low volume production. The Process [pic] Figure 1 : X Electronics (M) Ltd. (Image taken from Google Image for PCB manufacturing plant layout) X Electronics (M) Ltd. facilities have already applied several lean tools in its PCB manufacturing processes. The company is committed to achieve short lead time delivery and low cost production by optimizing its humans, machines and material resources. Figure 2 : PCB Assembly Process (Image taken from Google Image) [pic] 1. Implementation of Lean in PCB Manufacturing Lean Application X Electronics begin applying lean tools in its manufacturing process in 2004 after receiving direct order from its headquarters in Singapore. This is due to lean being the main topic in...
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...JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY H o w to mo tiv a te a ss emb ly lin e wo rke r s Master Thesis within Business Administration. Subject: Management. Authors: Valdete Jusufi Maja Saitović Supervisor: Karl Erik Gustafsson Jönköping May, 2007. Master Thesis within Business Administration. Subject: Management. Title: Authors: Tutor: Date: Subject terms: How to motivate assembly line workers Valdete Jusufi & Maja Saitović Karl Erik Gustafsson 2007-05-28 assembly line, motivation, industrial laundry business, incentives, Human Performance System Abstract The purpose of our master thesis was to investigate what motivates assembly line workers performing low-skill jobs in a small industrial laundry business. We wanted to see what factors determine and influence their motivation to work and if and how this motivation can be improved with respect to assembly line systems in general. The method of our investigation was qualitative in nature, where we studied one firm that leases clean bed clothes and textiles to hotels and restaurants around Sweden. We constructed a survey on motivation and handed it out to the assembly line workers who deal with the laundry. Furthermore, we interviewed the shift manager in order to get the company’s view on employee motivation. Our findings indicate that there are several overlapping factors that determine and influence motivation in the long run. From this particular case we saw that a unified working culture and collective efforts both boost the willingness...
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...offshore manufacturing reached its peak with the iconic iPhone, which Apple first introduced in 2007. All iPhones contain hundreds of parts, an estimated 90 percent of which are manufactured abroad. Advanced semiconductors come from Germany and Taiwan, memory from Korea and Japan, display panels and circuitry from Korea and Taiwan, chip sets from Europe, and rare metals from Africa and Asia. Apple’s major subcontractor, the Taiwanese multinational firm, Foxconn, performs final assembly in China. Apple still employees some 43,000 people in the United States, and it has kept important activities at home, including product design, software engineering, and marketing. Furthermore, Apple claims that its business supports another 254,000 jobs in the United States in engineering, manufacturing, and transportation. For example, the glass for the iPhone is manufactured at Corning’s U.S. plants in Kentucky and New York. But an additional 700,000 people are involved in the engineering, building, and final assembly of its products outside of the United States, and most of them work at subcontractors like Foxconn. When explaining its decision to assemble the iPhone in China, Apple cites a number of factors. While it is true that labor costs are much lower in China, Apple executives point out that labor costs only...
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...system leads to pushing work through the system instead of pulling work. III. The Kanban system controls the work in process inventory. IV. The seats in the Toyota case discussed in class were ordered using the Kanban process V. Kanban requires cross-training all workers. a. I only b. II only c. III and IV only d. I, II and III only e. I, II and IV f. I and IV only g. I and III only Answer g) is correct Please write the letter corresponding to the most appropriate example or definition from choices (a – k below) on the blank line next to each word below. a) Examples of this include: workers having to make unnecessary movements (i.e. excessive reaching or walking to get tools or parts), working on parts that are defective and idle time. b) A system that enables a line worker to signal that he or she needs assistance from his or her supervisor, for example in the case of a defect. Used to implement the Jidoka principle. c) A brainstorming technique that helps structure the process of identifying underlying causes of an (usually undesirable) outcome d) As an example of this philosophy, workers in the Toshiba case had notebooks at their work stations that they used to jot down improvement ideas. e) A method that controls the amount of work-in-process inventory f) If...
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...services and cars for a suitable process and product design approaches. In order to manage services and deliver on-site services, there are three types of contrasting approaches which include product line approach, self-service approach, and the personal attention approach. Cars are a way of life these days without them our way of life cannot exist. The main focal point in this industry is the result. A car company must produce a quality product that fits the end-user's taste. The three main line item approaches I will discuss will be the job process, batch production, and assembly line. All are a part of the manufacturing of cars. Process Design Matrix Self-service Approach The self-service approach is more consumers driven. The efficiency of this service process can be enhanced E-tickets, Automatic teller machines, company websites which these are just some of the approaches that shift the burden to the consumer (Larson & Gray, 2006). This design approach will also be supportive of the food company, in terms of offering good quality of products to the customers as well as reducing time of service delivery (Chase, 2006). For the reason, due to self-service approach the company will be able to focus on the delivery of effective and efficient services in a less period. Product Line Approach The main focus of this approach is on the efficient production of results or services. In this approach, the company controls the execution of each outlet in order to ensure rapid delivery...
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...also aimed at finding out that whether the company should rent additional capacity by purchasing additional engines from an outside supplier to relieve the capacity problem in the engine assembly department. The calculations were based on the revenue for each model, machine hours required for each job, total machine hours available per month and variable cost per truck. Discussion: Currently Merton’s is producing 1000 model 101 trucks per month and 1500 model 102 trucks per month. At this level Model 102 assembly and engine assembly were operating at capacity and metal stamping at 83.3% capacity and Model 101 assembly at 40% capacity. Data used for analysis: Data regarding given capacity of the engine assembly line, machine hours availability and requirement for completing various manufacturing jobs, standard product costs for each model and the overhead budget for 2012. Method: For finding the product mix that maximizes contribution a linear programming model was prepared using, maximize monthly contribution as the objective function, number of model 101 trucks and number of model 102 trucks as the decision variables, the analysis was bound to the constraints of requirement and availability of machine hours for engine assembly, metal stamping, Model 101 assembly and Model 102 assembly (refer attachments figure 1) Contribution per unit was found out by using the total revenue...
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...orHENRY FORD AND THE MODEL T O n May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the fifteen millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan. Since his ‘‘universal car’’ was the industrial success story of its age, the ceremony should have been a happy occasion. Yet Ford was probably wistful that day, too, knowing as he did that the long production life of the Model T was about to come to an end. He climbed into the car, a shiny black coupe, with his son, Edsel, the president of the Ford Motor Company. Together, they drove to the Dearborn Engineering Laboratory, fourteen miles away, and parked the T next to two other historic vehicles: the first automobile that Henry Ford built in 1896, and the 1908 prototype for the Model T. Henry himself took each vehicle for a short spin: the nation’s richest man driving the humble car that had made him the embodiment of the American dream. Henry Ford invented neither the automobile nor the assembly line, but recast each to dominate a new era. Indeed, no other individual in this century so completely transformed the nation’s 76 FORBES GREATEST BUSINESS STORIES OF ALL TIME way of life. By improving the assembly line so that the Model T could be produced ever more inexpensively, Ford placed the power of the internal combustion engine within reach of the average citizen. He transformed the automobile itself from a luxury to a necessity. The advent of the Model T seemed to renew a sense of independence...
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...E-mail: rjdegen@gmail.com Phone: +55 21 8068 9000 Av. Pasteur 333 Botafogo/Urca Lancha Ovelha Negra Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro 22290-240 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil 3 Fordism and Taylorism are responsible for the early success and recent decline of the U.S. motor vehicle industry Abstract This paper identifies the ways in which the ideas of Fordism and Taylorism have been responsible for the success of the U.S. motor vehicle companies until 1955, and for their subsequent decline. On three occasions, the motor vehicle industry has changed the fundamental ideas on the process of manufacturing, and, perhaps more significantly, on how humans work together to create value. Under Fordism and Taylorism, the conditions of employment at the assembly lines became less and less bearable for the workers, and this resulted in an ongoing confrontation between management and the workforce, led by United Auto Workers (UAW). This confrontation resulted in escalating labor costs for the U.S. motor vehicle companies, and undermined their capacity to compete with the Japanese motor...
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...Levitt saw the "production-line approach" as one by which services could significantly improve their performance on both cost, largely through improved efficiency, as well as quality. Services could achieve this by looking to manufacturing and borrowing some of the thinking exemplified by one of the founders of mass production, Henry Ford. Ford designed his moving assembly line in order to produce affordable automobiles (Hounshell, 1984), where the guiding principles of "Fordism" and mass production was the substitution of equipment for labour to reduce production costs (Piore and Sabel, 1984). Mass production also reduced unlimited production variety to single models. Services that adopt the (mass) production-line approach could gain a competitive advantage with a cost-leadership strategy (Fitzsimmons and Fitzsimmons, 1994). The defining characteristics of the production-line approach include: Limited discretionary action of personnel. Employees perform well-defined tasks. This results in standardization and quality, i.e. consistency in meeting specifications, the prized outcomes of the production-line approach in manufacturing. Levitt's prototypic service example, McDonald's, is able to promise customers a consistent service package across geographically dispersed operations. Division of labour. The total job is broken down into groups of tasks which allows specialization of skills. The entire process is divided into routine tasks. This narrow division of labour made possible...
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