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| Henry Ford & his Company | |
| In the early 1899, after Ford had raised enough money to start his own company, Ford attempts to establish a company to manufacture automobiles. Unfortunately this ended up in failure. In June 1903, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated, with Henry Ford as vice-president and chief engineer. Ford now began production of the Model A car, there were a great number of car sold and the company flourished and by 1907 the profits of the company reached up to $1,100,000. In 1909 Ford took the decision to manufacture only one type of car, the Model T. | |
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In 1914, Ford began paying his employees nearly doubling the wages offered by other manufacturers. He also cut down the workday hours to enable to convert the factory into a three-shift workday. With Ford's mass-production techniques, this would eventually allow for the manufacture of a Model T every 24 seconds. His innovations made him an international celebrity. In 1910, more and more people are now familiar with the Model T, and enable to meet the growing demand for the Model T, the company opened a large factory at Highland Park, Michigan, this factory is basically managed to work on the following; precision manufacturing, standardized and interchangeable parts, a division of labor, and, in 1913, the idea of a continuous moving assembly line was established. This idea was basically about workers with delivery of parts by conveyor belt and ready to do their job, and was carefully timed to keep the assembly line moving smoothly and efficiently. The idea was to revolutionize automobile production by reducing assembly time per vehicle, therefore lowering costs. Ford's production of Model Ts made his company the largest automobile manufacturer in the world. By 1918, half of all cars in America were Model Ts. |
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In the early 1920s the Ford Company began the construction of the world's largest industrial complex in Dearborn, Michigan. This great Rouge Plant is producing all the supply for the automobile including: a steel mill, glass factory, and automobile assembly line. All the manufacturing process from refining raw materials to final assembly of the automobile was being done in the Rouge Plant. By 1927 Ford had sold over 15,000,000 Model T cars, however in the early 1928, Ford’s sales were on the decline, because the General Motors's Chevrolet got in the business, and was the current best-selling car. Ford witnessed many changes during his lifetime, from a farm-boy into an owner of an automobile company. Ford had a stroke in 1938, and passed away on April 7, 1947.
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Aerial view of the Rouge Plant in 1930