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 ...

Ford Motor Co., which famously popularized the assembly line, has joined Tesla Inc. and other EV makers around the world in a race to find a different, cheaper way to make a lot of cars, and fast. The ...

A piece of manufacturing history is on display inside the Detroit Historical Museum. The museum showcases an innovation that revolutionized the production of cars and numerous other products. In 1913, ...

In recognition of the National Association of Manufacturers’ Manufacturing Day 2021, let’s take a look at more than a century of advances in automotive manufacturing at Ford Motor Co. Ford founder ...

Ford is rapidly expanding its advanced manufacturing capabilities and boosting global production to meet surging consumer demand. By 2017, Ford will increase its global flexible manufacturing to ...

In the early 20th century, Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing when he installed the first moving assembly line at his automotive plant near Detroit, Michigan. However, the assembly line concept ...

On this day in history, October 7, 1913, Henry Ford and his team at the Highland Park automobile assembly plant in Michigan launched the first moving assembly line. It simplified and quickened the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ford tore up the moving assembly line concept and designed a better one ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts. The moving assembly line made mass ...