...common. Henry Ford presented the first automobile assembly line as a method of producing cars more quickly, and much of the automobile industry adopted this technique. The assembly line of production spread all across the country to various different industries allowing them to convert to mechanized production....
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...miles of paved roads kept everything and everyone on the move. The Beginning • Henry Ford started out in 1915 by buying twothousand acres along the Rouge River west of Detroit. • 90 miles of railroad track both inside and out, and 120 miles of conveyor belts connected the facilities. • the original Rouge complex was a mile-and-a-half wide and more than a mile long. • The multiplex of 93 buildings totaled 15,767,708 square feet of floor area. Initial Plans • The Rouge River property was not earmarked for any particular use. Ford had considered turning the land into a large bird sanctuary. • Undersecretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt engaged Henry Ford to build boats. The Ford’s River Rouge Plant Originally created to produce only coke, smelt iron, and build tractors. Change of Plans • Ford shifted its final assembly line from Highland Park to the Rouge. • The Rouge becomes the most fully integrated car manufacturing facility in the world. • The Rouge employed more than 100,000 people. • 1 new car rolled off the line every 49 seconds. Complex contained every element needed to produce an automobile • • • • • • Blast furnaces A open hearth mill A steel rolling mill A glass plant A huge power plant Assembly line Power, Power, Power Ford put a mammoth power plant into operation in 1920 that furnished all the Rouge's electricity and one-third of the Highland Park Plant's needs as well. Work Load Each day, workers smelted more than 1,500 tons of...
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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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...What Work Is by Philip Levine We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is—if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it. Forget you. This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another. Feeling the light rain falling like mist into your hair, blurring your vision until you think you see your own brother ahead of you, maybe ten places. You rub your glasses with your fingers, and of course it’s someone else’s brother, narrower across the shoulders than yours but with the same sad slouch, the grin that does not hide the stubbornness, the sad refusal to give in to rain, to the hours of wasted waiting, to the knowledge that somewhere ahead a man is waiting who will say, “No, we’re not hiring today,” for any reason he wants. You love your brother, now suddenly you can hardly stand the love flooding you for your brother, who’s not beside you or behind or ahead because he’s home trying to sleep off a miserable night shift at Cadillac so he can get up before noon to study his German. Works eight hours a night so he can sing Wagner, the opera you hate most, the worst music ever invented. How long has it been since you told him you loved him, held his wide shoulders, opened your eyes wide and said those words, and maybe kissed his cheek? You’ve never done something so simple, so obvious, not because you’re too young or too dumb, not because you’re jealous...
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...The Big Things in Industrial /Manufacturing / Enterprise Systems – The Past, Present, and Future (An outline) By SaketPundlik Introduction The automobile industry has changed drastically over the past century. We have come a long way from the craft manufacturing days of P&L to flexible manufacturing applied by BMW. The journey from the days of skilled workers who used to handle making the whole car on their own to automated robots who assemble the car in less than a minute is a fascinating one. The foundation of this transition was laid down by Henry Ford in 1908 when he achieved complete interchangeability and the introduction of the moving assembly line in 1913. These concepts were taken even further by Alfred Sloan of General Motors. After combining Ford’s factory policies and Sloan’s marketing techniques we get mass production in its final mature form. However after decades of churning out millions of vehicles per year, Eiji Toyoda found faults in the system considered by many as the ultimate production system. He along with his production genius TaiichiOhno, soon developed the system which would once again revolutionize the automobile production system as the world would see it. By applying lean manufacturing in their home country of Japan, they and their company, Toyota, they were able to match the production volumes of GM with a workforce of almost half. Now, around the turn of the millennium there is considerable research going on in the field of flexible and reconfigurable...
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...was Henry Ford. He was a revolutionary businessman that believed in his self and often quoted, “I will build a motorcar for the great multitude.” Ford had brilliant ideas with different techniques that transformed millions of people still to this day. Ford impacted America in three major ways the assembly lines, workforce and economic growth. In 1908 he moved his assembly line to the Piquette Avenue Plant located in Highland Park, Michigan. The first production assembled at this plant was the Model T vehicles. Through interchangeable parts, standard manufacturing and a division labor, the demand greatly increased for the Model T vehicle. Ford ran into a problem, the production of these cars took 12 hour and 8 minutes. He quickly turned that time around because of high demands and it only took 1 hour and 33 minutes for production. Ford was known as the man who put the world on wheels. He produced more cars than any other manufacturing combined together. It forever changed our automotive workforce. Ford discussed his innovation techniques which were to share his profit with the workers and pay them five dollars a day. He knew this would double the wage of any other manufacturing company and everyone would want to work for him. Ford reduced a typical workday of nine hours to eight hours to create three different shifts. This allowed for the Model T vehicle to be produced every twenty four seconds. It immediately became a success however, this did not only help Ford business...
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...Although Henry Ford is credited for introducing the world’s first moving assembly line, the technology was not initially introduced at the at the Ford Rouge location which many mistakenly associate with the world renowned plant. Instead, The Rouge continued production of Eagle Boats as requested by Undersecretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the war ended, The Rouge’s production was focused on large freighters used to transport ore, coal and limestone. (Henry Ford’s Rouge, 2018) This would lead into the transition towards producing automotive parts and the components necessary to construct the Ford Model T, assembled at the Highland Park location. While the Model T became the first mass-produced automobile, enabling the growing...
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...In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. This event signified a conscious decision on Ford's part to dedicate his life to industrial pursuits. His promotion to Chief Engineer in 1893 gave him enough time and money to devote attention to his personal experiments on internal combustion engines. These experiments culminated in 1896 with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle-the Quadricycle. The Quadricycle had four wire wheels that looked like heavy bicycle wheels, was steered with a tiller like a boat, and had only two forward speeds with no reverse. Although Ford was not the first to build a self-propelled vehicle with a gasoline engine, he was, however, one of several automotive pioneers who helped this country become a nation of motorists. After two unsuccessful attempts to establish a company to manufacture automobiles, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 with Henry Ford as vice-president and chief engineer. The infant company produced only a few cars a day at the Ford factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies. Henry Ford realized his dream of producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient with the introduction of the Model T in 1908. This vehicle initiated a new era in personal transportation. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle on rough roads, immediately becoming a huge success. ...
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...Henry Mai GSC 3600 Kevin Ketels Fall 2013 Ford Rouge Plant Visit Located in Dearborn, Michigan, the Ford Rouge Plant was a mile-and-a-half wide and more than a mile long. The multiplex of 93 buildings totaled 15,767,708 square feet of floor area crisscrossed by 120 miles of conveyors. Henry Ford’s ultimate goal was to achieve total self-sufficiency by owning, operating and coordinating all the resources needed to produce complete automobiles. Eventually, the Rouge produced virtually every Model T component, but assembly of the Model T remained at Highland Park. According to Henry Ford: The principles of assembly are these: (1) Place the tools and the men in the sequence of the operation so that each component part shall travel the least possible distance while in the process of finishing. (2) Use work slides or some other form of carrier so that when a workman completes his operation, he drops the part always in the same place—which place must always be the most convenient place to his hand—and if possible have gravity carry the part to the next workman for his operation. (3) Use sliding assembling lines by which the parts to be assembled are delivered at convenient distances. Also, what did I found most interesting about my visit was back in the 1930s, more than 100,000 people worked at the Rouge. To accommodate them required a multi-station fire department, a modern police force, a fully staffed hospital and a maintenance crew 5,000 strong. One new car rolled...
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...Introduction In all business and organizational activities is the behaviour of getting people together to complete required goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively, that's called management. Modern management was based on The Principles of Scientific Management (F.W. Taylor by 1911) and Administration Industrielle Et Générale（H. Fayol by 1916). Nowadays, the subject of management have more development and more theories than the past, meanwhile many theories' disadvantage was discovered. Main theories of management 1. Classical theory There are a lot of theories of management in the world; one of the parts is called classical theory. Basically, this theory is emphasis on purpose, formal structure, hierarchy of management, technical requirements, and common principles of organization. It’s also emphasis placed on planning of work, technical requirements of organizations, systematic methods of management, and assumption of rational and logical behavior. Meanwhile propose that associated with division of work tasks, clearly defined duties, control and co-ordination of work, hierarchy, formal rules. There are two major classical sub-groups: i. Scientific Management (F.W. Taylor, 1911) Scientific management also called Taylorism. In the beginning of The Principles of Scientific Management (F.W. Taylor by 1911), Taylor thought that to prove the best way of management is a real scientific subject. This subject are based on clearly defined...
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...U.S. government quickly commissioned Ford Motor Company to build the Eagle Boats (also known as submarine chasers) for the U.S. Navy. Four months after the company received the order, the first Eagle Boat was launched into the Rouge boat slip. It was July 1918. Although the government had contracted with the company to build 100 of these boats, only 60 were produced before the war came to an end. Supplying the Allies’ Needs Eagle Boats were not the only product made by Ford Motor Company for the Allies in World War I. There were helmets, tanks, airplane engines; Model T cars, trucks, and ambulances; and Fordson tractors. After the war, the Rouge plant was converted for civilian production, but the first civilian product to be built was not a car or a truck this time, either—it was the "Fordson" tractor. Tractor production ended there in 1928, and car production commenced. But in 1942, civilian production temporarily ceased again to support the Allied war effort. The Rouge and the other Ford facilities were once again converted to wartime production. Mobility's MuseIn 1903 with $28,000 in cash, Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company, whose automobiles changed how the world moved. Innovation that Changed the World One hundred years ago today, Henry Ford and his team at Highland Park assembly plant launched the world’s greatest contribution to manufacturing – the first moving assembly line. It simplified assembly of the Ford Model T’s 3,000 parts by breaking it...
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...Management refers to the process of getting organizational goals by working with and through people and other organizational resources. Management has main characteristics: it is a process of continuing and related activities. It involves on reaching organisational goals and in order to reach the goals, it involves working with people and other organisational resources. (managementinnovations, 2008) Other experts define management in different ways, for example Boddy(2014) describes management as ‘ the activity of getting things done with the aid of people and other resources’(Stuart, 1967; cited in Boddy, 2014, p 10). Peter Drucker define management is ‘all about human beings. Its tasks are to make people capable of joint performance to make their strengths effective and weaknesses irrelevant.’ (Drucker, 2003) There are many different approach to management, competing value of framework is a framework that allows us to identify and compare four models of management. Quinn et al. (2003) believes that competing values of framework is a way of integrating the theories of management. Organisations experience tensions between control and flexibility and between an external and an internal focus. Placing these on two axes allows theories to be allocated to one four types: rational goal, internal process, human relation and open systems. This is illustrated on figure 1.0. Rational goal model ( Taylor) shows a clear direction leads to productive outcomes, with an emphasis on rational...
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...Buffan U.S. History Mr. Campbell March 5, 2018 Henry Ford: Road to Success Henry Ford was one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the 1900’s with the invention of the assembly line and the creation of some of the first affordable cars for the common public. He is arguably one of the greatest, most famous businessmen in American History. Henry Ford had become a master in the development of automobiles, mastered business essentials , and had a personality that skyrocketed his capabilities to become a successful man. This man can be acclaimed as the one who pushed the U.S. into the American Century with the mass production of the automobile, but he didn’t start out in the automotive industry or in any industry for that matter....
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...Evolution of Ford Company The Ford Motor Company (FMC) is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903 with $28,000, eleven men, and Henry Ford as Vice President and Chief Engineer of the company. This was only the beginning of what was to become a pioneering automaker whose prominence in innovations would transcend the auto making industry and transform Ford Motor into the leader it is today Initially, when Ford Motors first open its doors they were only producing three cars a day. In 1908 the company produced the famous Model T, a reliable and affordable vehicle for the mass market. Ford drove and raced this vehicle at every opportunity to prove how reliable it was. The success and the growing demand for the Model T was possibly the inspiration that led Ford to seek faster alternatives for mass production and in 1913 introduced the conveyor-belt assembly line. The incorporation of the conveyor-belt was possibly Ford’s greatest contribution to the automotive manufacturing industry. First implemented at the Highland Park, Michigan, the new technique allowed individual workers to stay in one place and perform the same task repeatedly on multiple vehicles that passed by them. This had a tremendous impact on production and Ford Company that went from doing 3 cars a day, to one every 93 minutes. By the end of that year they had perfected the techniques so well that production was about...
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...------------------------------------------------- Kenya History Then and Now Early Kenya history evidence shows that man's prehistoric ancestors roamed Kenya as early as four million years ago. The modern history of Kenya, however, did not start until the Cushitic people of Northern Africa moved into present day Kenya around 2000 BC. Thousands of years later, at around 200 AD, the Bantu arrived and settled along Kenya's coast. Later, between the 10th-14th centuries, the Nilotic people arrived and occupied the Great Rift Valley plains. Arab traders began frequenting Kenya's coast during the first century AD. By 700 AD, Arab settlements had sprouted along the coastline, giving way to inter-marriages between the Arabs and the Bantu. This formed the beginning of the Swahili culture and language found in Kenya today. Arab dominance ended in 1498, when the Portuguese arrived and settled along Kenya's coast. It was during their stay that the Portuguese built the famous Fort Jesus in Mombasa in 1593. The Portuguese retained control of much of the coast until the late 1600s when the Imam of Oman defeated them and brought Kenya's coast under Islamic control. Kenya Colonial History The colonial history of Kenya starts with the Berlin Conference of 1885 when European nations divided Africa among themselves. In 1894, the British government declared the East African Protectorate over Kenya and Uganda and, in 1920, the protectorate became a colony. The Kenya historical events timeline...
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