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By Amy Kim, Catherine Shaw, Jordan Freedlander
Junior Division
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford: Founder of Ford Motor Company
Workers at a factory use an assembly line.
The Assembly Line is a popular manufacturing technique used widely all around the world and makes work much more efficient and faster. The ever-growing demand of more cars brought Henry Ford to realize that he was going to need a much more efficient way of producing cars in order to reduce the price. He looked at other industries and found four main principles that would get them closer to their goal : interchangeable parts, continuous flow, division of work, and reducing wasted labor. Over the span of five years, Ford continued to test and experiment with these four principles. In October 1913, Ford finally put them together and produced the first ever moving assembly line used for large-manufacturing.
This picture shows some workers working on automobiles in a factory.
This picture shows an conveyor belt on which products are built on.
