In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...

American car manufacturing dominated the automotive industry in the 20th century. Here's what the factories looked like.

Ford believed that time equaled money, and his Highland Park, Mich., factory, the first to make cars in a moving assembly line, is considered a revolution in manufacturing, which had a "profound" ...

The first Model Ts were hand-built at the Detroit Piquette Avenue Plant, but the modern assembly line was invented and perfected at the Ford Highland Park Plant. Then as demand for the automobile ...

To understand the significance of unboxed assembly, let's first consider its historical roots. The moving assembly line, introduced by Ford in 1913, revolutionized car production, slashing assembly ...