NO BUSINESS FIGURE casts as long a shadow over the 20th century as Henry Ford. Ford was the godfather of mass production, which, as the century unfolded, became the central organizing principle of ...

Manufacturers usually need to track the manufacturing process from production to delivery not only to assure the quality of the finished products but also to reduce waste and inefficiencies that are ...

Companies choose manufacturing processes -- such as job order, batch process, assembly line and continuous process -- based in part on the level of product individualization allowed. Manufacturers use ...

Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line, but he used it to full advantage. Ford’s idea was simple: Construct cars using the same tools that slaughterhouses use to deconstruct cows. And it was ...

Say what you will about the industrial age assembly line, but there’s no denying one fact: It was crazy effective. All of this made it easy for managers to optimize the assembly process. For instance, ...

The moving assembly line was created 100 years ago to answer demand for the Model T. By 1927%2C Ford was able to build a Model T every 24 seconds Production to increase from 6 million to 8 million ...

A century ago, on October 7, 1913, engineers built a rudimentary system using a rope and wince to pull a new Ford Model T past 140 workers at a brand new factory dubbed the Crystal Palace. Henry Ford ...

November 14, 2006 The moving production line concept was around for more than a century before Henry Ford famously used it to speed output and cut costs and hence transform the automotive industry a ...

Airbus officially inaugurated the final assembly line for its A350 XWB Tuesday morning in Toulouse, France, with the help of French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. The A350 is Airbus' ...

FRAMINGHAM - It was more than 30 years ago - in February 1989 - that the General Motors assembly plant in Framingham closed, putting 2,100 people out of work. Some left Massachusetts to work in other ...