Henry Ford is the founder of Ford Motor Company. In 1896, he designed the first four-horsepower four-wheeled carriage that does not require horse-drawn.
From a management perspective, Ford is an advocate of mass production. Based on the inspiration of Chicago food packaging manufacturers to open livestock and clean the chain transportation device, they created a "flowing production line".
is different from the production method of home workshops. The "processing production line" allows work to find people instead of people looking for jobs.
Ford insists on reducing workers' ideas (not letting workers have too many ideas) and minimizes their work, and they want to do everything with just one action as much as possible.
All operations of the assembly line adhere to two principles:
first , if it is not necessary, workers will never move one more step;
second , at work, no one will bend down to complete a certain operation.
All work guidelines are divided into three steps:
1. place tools in the order of operation and specify seats of corresponding operators in order to shorten the transmission distance of each part as much as possible during the entire manufacturing process.
2 is When the worker completes the process he is responsible for, he only needs to place the part on the working slide rail or other conveying device beside him. If possible, try to rely on the gravity of the part itself to automatically slide to the worker responsible for the next process.
Third, uses a sliding assembly pipeline, and components waiting to be assembled can be automatically transferred to the next assembly point.
was mass-produced through assembly line. The T-car developed in 1908 had a production capacity of 6,000 units and a price of 850 US dollars; in 1916, 600,000 units were sold for US$360; when the T-car was offline, a volume of 15 million was sold for US$290.
Due to the large-scale sales of Ford Model T-car , the United States has become the "country on the wheel".
Ford has created far-reaching products, making him famous all over the world. Ford changed society through cars. He was a founder of the machine age. His assembly production line became the mainstream corporate image at that time.
Ford Automobile production adopts Taylor's scientific management idea, but Taylor starts from tasks, and Ford starts from costs and reduces production costs through large-scale production.
Ford's management ideas and classic quotes:
Only any Ford car has a fault, I will assume all responsibility.
does anything, only better, no better.
minimizes the technical content of various tasks so that anyone can learn it once.
All our employees must start slowly from the bottom.
He can have nothing, but he must have a passion for work.
Among all the errors, the most intolerable thing is any form of injustice.
Our business policy is to reduce prices, expand production, and improve quality.
does not have to hold meetings or hold seminars to cultivate feelings between individuals.
