Henry Ford - A Great Innovator
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Case Details:
Case Code : LDEN025
Case Length : 13 Pages
Period : 1903
Pub Date : 2003
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Ford Motor Corporation Industry : Automobile
Countries : USA
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The 'Mechanical' Journey of Ford
In September 1891, Ford joined the Edison
Illuminating Company (EIC) in Detroit as a night operating engineer
at its sub-station at Woodward and Willis (Detroit) at a monthly salary of $45.
In just a couple of years, he became the Chief Engineer, earning $100 per month.
His responsibilities included ensuring uninterrupted electric supply in the city
for all 24 hours in a day. The work schedule and timings were highly irregular,
but this provided him the much-needed opportunity, time and finances to carry
out his own experiments on internal combustion engines...
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Ford - The Master Craftsman of Automobile
By the end of 1903, the Ford Co. had 125 employees and had sold 1,708 cars in
three different models. These automobiles were fitted with two cylinders and
had a capacity of 8 HP. Ford and his team of engineers developed 19 models
during the period 1903-1908 and named them each after a letter of the
alphabet from 'Model A' to 'Model S'. During the same period, Ford himself
introduced five models – Models A, B, C, F and K...
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Assembly-Line - A 'Paradigm Shift' In Automobile Manufacturing
The Ford Co. started its car manufacturing operations using the craft
production system in 1903. Under this system, all cars were made up of the
basic chassis and engine, but the body was designed to suit individual
tastes. In this system, the manufacturing costs were high and did not
decline with increase in volumes. When the Ford Co. began operations,
assembly stands on which a whole car was assembled usually by one fitter
(assembler) were used... |
Before 1908, a Ford worker assembled a large part of a car before proceeding to the next car. The fitters performed the same set of activities repetitively at their fixed assembly stands. Workers procured the necessary parts, filed them, so that they would fit and then bolted them in at the appropriate place. Later, to increase the efficiency of the process, each workstation was supplied with the required parts; this allowed the assemblers to remain at a given place throughout the day.
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