Henry Ford's Difference In The Automobile Industry

The life of Henry Ford
Henry Ford was born on July 30 in 1863 in Greenfield Township, Michigan he was one of the first American industrialists and wanted to make a difference in the automobile industry. Back then, before 1908 automobiles were expensive that only rich people could afford. Henry Ford wanted to change this and wanted everyone to have a vehicle to drive. He was able to accomplish this by the assembly line, in which it created more cars in less time. The first car Henry Ford made was the Model T created on the assembly line. Ford’s innovation in manufacturing created less expensive cars and higher wage jobs.
On December 1st in 1913 Henry first installs the first moving assembly line of the mass production of an entire automobile.

What his innovation did, was reduce the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to 2 hours and 30 mins. How the assembly line was created was by a technique used in the 19 century which was the meatpacking. This was known as the disassembly line. This was seen in Chicago, where overhead trolleys were used to carry carcasses from one worker to the next. The trolleys were connected with chains and power was used to move the meat down the line. This was the true beginning of the assembly line. Each worker was given a specific task and pace to work with and this generated the idea for Henry Ford. It came at a time when he was
trying to solve the problem of producing enough cars for the demand in the market and at a reasonable price.
The assembly line is a manufacturing process most of the time called a progressive process in which parts like interchangeable were added as the semi- finished.

The way the assembly line moves are from workstation to workstation, where the parts are added in the sequence until the final assembly is produced. A finished product can be assembled faster and with less labor than by have workers carried parts to a stationary piece assembly. Many workers hated their job because it was hard, they had to work for 12 hours. The percent of people who quit their job working on the assembly line because it was too much for them was 370%. Henry Ford didn’t want his workers to quit so what he did was satisfy his workers and give them less hours and higher payment. Ford was the first man to pay his workers $5 a day. Ford has also reduced a day's work to 8 hours. The thing Ford did was called Welfare Capitalism, which means taking care of employees to keep them happy and loyal
The assembly line that Henry Ford built was probably the first automated assembly line. It was certainly Ford's first assembly line was one of the most sophisticated and successful examples ever. So Henry Ford wanted to build a car that everybody could afford not just the rich

people.
Henry was determined to build a simple, reliable and affordable car which he was able to accomplish. Henry was able to make the first Model T car with the assembly line on October 1, 1908. The Ford Model T also known as the 'Tin Lizzie', is famous for the first affordable automobile. People often credit Henry Ford with inventing the automobile and the assembly line. In fact, he did neither Gottlieb Daimler built the world’s first four-wheeled motor vehicle in 1886 but it was too expensive for most Americans, but Henry Ford made the first inexpensive automobile by producing his Model T car on an assembly line.Within ten years over half of all cars sold in America were the Ford Model T. In 1914 Ford produced 308,162 cars, which was more than all 299 other auto manufacturers combined. In 1927 the company was producing an automobile every 24
seconds. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen Beetle surpassed it in 1972.
Ford is often quoted as saying "I will build a motorcar for the great multitude" but the Model T was less expensive than most other cars, and it was still not attainable for the multitude.

Henry Ford wanted to build a high-quality automobile that would be affordable to everyday people. He believed the way to do this was to manufacture one model in huge quantities. Henry Ford searched the world for the best materials he could find at the cheapest cost. During a car race in Florida , Ford examined the wreckage of a French car and noticed that many of its parts were made of a metal that was lighter but stronger than what was being used in American cars. No one in the U.S. knew how to make this French steel a vanadium alloy. As part of the preproduction process for the Model T, Ford imported an expert who helped him build a steel mill. As a result, the only cars in the world to utilize vanadium steel in the next five years would be French luxury cars and the Model T. Ford realizes he needs another efficient way to produce the cars in lower prices. Ford saw what he was missing was 4 principles that would help with the Model T which was interchangeable parts, continuous flow, division of labor, and reducing wasted

effort.