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 ...

In recognition of the National Association of Manufacturers’ Manufacturing Day 2021, let’s take a look at more than a century of advances in automotive manufacturing at Ford Motor Co. Ford founder ...

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 ...

The automaker’s newest plant near Monterrey, Mexico, reportedly will ditch a moving assembly line that has been industry mainstay for more than a century. Tesla remains vague on details and hasn’t yet ...

Back in the Second World War, aircraft manufacturers looking for ways to speed up the assembly process came up with the moving production line. Now Boeing has gone back to that system and applied it ...

Ford tore up the moving assembly line concept and designed a better one, the company's CEO Jim Farley explained to a crowd gathered at Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky for Ford's announcement ...

Sometimes, you just need to throw away the rulebook that you wrote a century ago. Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Jim Farley said the company’s $2 billion investment in manufacturing in Louisville to ...

Three years after it began studying the complexities of a moving assembly line for its big twin-engine 777s, Boeing has begun the process at the company's wide-body aircraft headquarters in Everett, ...

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