NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deskilling, James J. Couzens, Walter Flanders
27 Jan 2018
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November 23, 2017: the ford motor company and mass production early years. In 1906: he built his own car named model t. If you want to control cost, you have to control everything within production. Inventory, budgets: cost controls, taylorism, don"t just focusing on making parts, or standardization, also focus on scientific management, manufacturing parts that are interchangeable standard parts, uniform techniques will have a better outcome, p. e. Highland park: timeline in ford"s story is important, ford did not adopt asm overnight (adopted it gradually, heart of detroit. November 23, 2017: move his manufacturing to a much more remote area later known as highland park (outskirt of. In 1910, mass production takes place in 1913: ford was finding a great deal of success and increasing the volume of cars when he was mfging cars at this location, ford still found himself facing great limitations.
