The Next Line

The assembly line has historically been lauded for the success it brought to the auto industry, specifically during the production of the Model T built by the Ford Motor Company starting in 1908. What is often overlooked, however, is the human toll of this technological invention. Despite the exponential growth in efficiency and profit resulting from the assembly line and the higher employee wages that followed, worker satisfaction suffered. Frederick Taylor’s principles of “Scientific…

in moving assembly lines that makes it possible to assemble cars at low cost and high reliability (Fordism). Ford has expanded its business across the globe, entering markets in Europe, Africa, South America, Oceania as well as in Asia. Over the recent years, India has become one of the top destinations for the foreign direct investment to venture into. Back in the early 1990s, India was facing a severe foreign exchange…

V. Elon Musk - Bettering Humanity Despite A Great Chance of Failure Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, was born and raised in South Africa. He has accomplished many things in his life and says that you should always dream big and never give up no matter how many failures you have. His first rocket exploded on the first launch and he never gave up or cried about it. Instead, he kept chasing his dream regardless of what happened. He wanted to explore space, and maybe take humans to Mars in the…

1.) The challenges that Tata Motors faced during moving from producing commercial vehicles line to producing passenger cars: First of all Tata Motors was into the business of integrated commercial vehicles, but as after post-independence govt. of India reserved the production of Locomotives exclusively for state owned enterprises. Than Tata motors decided to diversify itself in heavy commercial vehicles in 1954. Market competition which is a part of industry environment that directly plays a…

They move forward to the next level of self-driving car implementation while taxi industry still sitting and complaining about the business. The taxi companies should have to wake up and open their eyes and look for better opportunities to survive in the current fast paced market…

start in how society views manufacturing and production as a standard in efficiency. As the evolution of production progressed it introduced innovative machines with new technologies, people have changed roles in the production line. We now have highly mechanized assembly lines in which machines take the brunt of the work. In the example of the cattle slaughterhouses, one saw touches thousands of hides. The hide of each animal has survived life in a CAFO (concentrated animal farming operation).…

Assembly lines are a “manufacturing technique in which a product is carried by some form of conveyor among stations where various operations are performed” (Columbia Encyclopedia). This extraordinary idea was one of the greatest things to come out of the Second Industrial Revolution which spanned from 1870 to 1914 (Mokyr, p.1). Assembly lines made our world the way it is today, adding overall convenience to buying. Today, stores are able to sell millions of units of product before going out…

The Singing Cowboy “An entire generation of Americans has lost a beloved old friend from childhood. Gene Autry’s music and movies captured all that was good and inspiring about America’s Old West,” as said by President Bill Clinton. He was the perfect example of how chivalry should be shown. Through Gene Autry’s hard work, he was able to overcome an impoverished childhood and become one of the most successful “Singing Cowboys” of his generation, leaving a legacy for many singers to live up to.…

the tactics Henry Ford has implemented in the development of many different aspects of his company demonstrate how he achieved total cost minimization while maintaining high productivity and high quality of his products. The invention of the assembly line, a milestone in the automotive industry, the invention of Henry ford’s simple and sturdy car- Model T, and increases in the salary wages of workers in the increasing number of manufacturing plants helped Henry Ford garner the ability to…

William Durant Cars. One of America’s prized possessions. Without these inventions, we would not have the ease of transportation we do now. William Durant deserves a place in history because he was one of the most involved in the production of automobiles. Motivations His motivation to get involved in this business came to him while he was still in the carriages business. A carriage salesman he worked with convinced him to buy a Buick when he could not pay (Gale Biography). This led him to…