It’s been just over 100 years since Henry Ford and his team at Highland Park assembly plant launched the world’s greatest contribution to manufacturing – the first moving assembly line. It simplified ...

TOKYO -- In old school auto assembly plants, cars inch through work stations as people plop in parts and wait for the next car. Now Honda Motor Co., in its quest for ever-better efficiency, has turned ...

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."-Henry Ford. You can't talk about the evolution of the automotive assembly line without first discussing Henry Ford and the ...

In a no-expense-spared, OEM assembly line restoration, accuracy in every detail is what separates a truly authentic build from a merely good one. From the way panels line up to the finish of the ...

With a rooster incorporated into the front windscreen, Renault said, the new Megane E-Tech Electric "proudly displays its French origins, made at the Douai factory (in northern France) in the ...

Say what you will about the industrial age assembly line, but there’s no denying one fact: It was crazy effective. All of this made it easy for managers to optimize the assembly process. For instance, ...

The saying, "a man's reach should exceed his grasp," may be inspirational, but it certainly is not ergonomic when considering assembly line work design. Assembly work involves considerable reaching ...

Henry Ford had a vision that one day just about everyone would be driving one of his cars, but to get there he needed to make the production process more efficient. In 1908, he introduced the Model T, ...

Ford will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the innovation that made the largest impact on manufacturing, industry and society as a whole: the moving assembly line. DEARBORN, MI- A century ago, Ford ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — A snowy midweek, Midwest morning in January isn't a popular time to buy a car or truck. The solitude in Motorcars Honda's showroom this day underscores the reality. But the ...