Ford president of The Americas. "We remain committed to matching our capacity with real consumer demand, and we are equipping nearly all of our assembly plants with flexible body shops ...

"Six of our assembly plants will build for an additional week in order to ensure we're getting more of our vehicles into dealerships." As part of Ford's annual production schedule, its North ...

Then he divided the labor by breaking the assembly of the Model T into 84 distinct steps. Each worker was trained to do just one of these steps. Ford called in Frederick Taylor, the creator of ...

To reduce costs and increase production of his most successful automobile — the Model T — Henry Ford borrowed ... implemented the assembly line in his manufacturing plant.