Over one hundred years ago, Henry Ford and his team at Highland Park assembly plant launched the world’s greatest contribution to auto manufacturing, the world's first moving assembly line.


It simplified assembly of the Ford Model T’s 3,000 parts by breaking it into 84 distinct steps performed by groups of workers as a rope pulled the vehicle chassis down the line.


When engineers constructed a crude system using a rope and winch to pull a Ford Model T past 140 workers in a sprawling new factory.





Not only did the moving assembly line drastically increase the pace at which cars were produced, it also drove down the price of each car making them more accessible to the masses.

Bringing the product to the worker instead of moving various teams of workers to the product became the idea that overhauled the manufacturing industry as a whole.

A new standard had taken over making it possible to generate more products and greater income through mass production.

The pictures below tell a story of just how innovative the moving assembly line was at its genesis and how continued progress has refined the process over the last ten decades.








Early Model T assembly at Highland Park Plant.








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Thanks to the moving assembly line, Ford was able to produce the 10 millionth Model T by 1924

As the company expanded, plants like this one in Dallas, Texas sprouted up around the world

By 1941, the vehicles coming down the line had changed significantly adding elements of complexity to the line as they developed

Poster above me though, just an enemy of progress

Crew working on engine in 1946 and 2016.

Nice

A line of cars reaching their final assembly stage in 1946 and 2015

Ford Assembly Plant in 1954

Before ergonomic design made its way into the plants, some workers worked alongside the vehicles while others made progress in the pits below.


Placing the engine into a Ford Boss in 1969

lemme use this opportunity to say this....
Mr explorers.. thank you so much for everything..

F-Series Assembly Plant, 1973 and now.

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And Innoson assembly plant of 2017 is a NO match to Ford's plant of 1941

Africans are so crude and primitive

More robotics in place in 2008

Ford park him self

Improved processes and ergonomics, as displayed here in 2012 at a plant, have brought many workers out of the pits and into a safer, healthier work environment.

Awesome Thread.

Assembly line then and now.

Finished line, 1913 and now.

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Whereas over here the government is still blocking any possible positive outcomes just to continue looting and then preach ONE UNITY to the gullibles! The future of this country is in the hands of GRANDPAs

It's alright. I dey vex now

Weh done jare Explorers

Im here explorers

This shows how much technology has progressed, from men and ropes to intelligent robotic arms.

In years to come
There won't be a human in that production line

I just came to look at photos.

It's explore baba, let me pitch my tent here

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I have the opportunity to say something but I won't let it go!

I've ALWAYS enjoyed your posts @ Explorers. I find them both entertaining and informative.
Pls keep it up! �

I doubt if the guy behind this monicker "explorers" is a Nigerian. He doesn't think like an African not to mention Nigeria.


Back to topic; this whites are more human tha. Most of we blacks. They aim in life is to make it easy for humans.

NOTE: I don't stand to be corrected