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Although General Motors began using robots on the assembly line in the 1960s, it was not until the 1980s that robots were extensively used on the industrial assembly line. Robots could be very efficient at doing certain repetitive jobs, and Japanese manufacturers soon led the world in using them on their assembly lines. Station workers' costs were cut, because fewer workers were needed. Yet, the overall use of robots was by 1990 becoming a failure. Many people were required to maintain the robots and program the computers that directed them. In the 1990s, Ford and Chrysler developed "value engineering," a process by which the basics of a design were kept simple, allowing them to be repeated for several different products; about 70 percent of the parts for a new car would be shared with a previous design.
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At the Ford Motor Company the assembly line was first adopted in the department that built the Model T's magneto, which generated electricity for the ignition system. Previously, one worker had assembled each magneto from start to finish. Under the new approach... each worker performed a single task as the unit traveled past his station on a conveyer belt. "The man who puts in a bolt does not put on the nut," Ford explained. "The man who puts on the nut does not tighten it."
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An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added to a product in a sequential manner using optimally planned logistics to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting-type methods. The best known form of the assembly line, the moving assembly line, was realized into practice by Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1913, and made famous in the following decade by the social ramifications of mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers. However, the various preconditions for the development at Ford stretched far back into the 19th century. Ford was the first company to build large factories around the concept. Mass production via assembly lines is widely considered to be the catalyst which initiated the modern consumer culture by making possible low unit costs for manufactured goods.
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Ford's success with assembly line methods allowed Henry Ford to make good on his promise to build a car for the multitude. Manufacturing a single model, the Model T, Ford standardized the car's design, streamlined production, lowered costs, and made cars available to nearly everyone. Beginning in 1909, the first full year of assembly line production, the Ford Motor Co. increased Model T production from 17,771 vehicles to 202,667 in 1913. In 1924, the Model T's peak year, some 1.8 million cars were produced.
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An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create a finished product. The best known form of the assembly line, the moving assembly line, was created by Henry Ford. The idea of the assembly line was taken from the idea of "disassembly lines" by his engineers. Ford was the first businessman to build factories around that concept. It is widely considered to be the catalyst which initiated the modern consumer culture.
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The assembly line was a huge success, but it had its drawbacks. The physical and mental strain on the workers trying to keep up with work schedules, made it hard for Ford to keep employees. So Ford had to come up with another system to to keep employees. Ford’s five dollar a day profit sharing plan of 1914 provided a new way to keep his employees working hard. Fords Ideas started a new way to make cars and today all car companies use his idea.
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