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Since then he and some other inventors from Edison lighting company, they set up the Detroit car companies. But the company soon went out of business because Ford was only intent of the expense of new car dealers. He let his car and race cars of other companies to prove the superiority of his car. His second own company, Henry Ford's main product is his car, October 10, 1901 he even drove himself to win. But soon his sponsors forced him to leave the Henry Ford, since the company was renamed Cadillac.
Ford very much attention to his relationship with his employees. His employees work eight hours a day. 1913, the salary is five U.S. dollars a day (for that time considerable). T-1918 peak of salary to be raised to 6 dollars a day. Circumstances at that time, this is unheard of. In addition, Ford also reward an employee inventions, let them bring their inventions to share profits.
1920 Ford bought a lot of land in Brazil to plant rubber trees, aiming his car tires. However, the results of this action is a big failure. 1945 when he sold these to a great loss he suffered.
Henry Ford has been interested in plastic, especially plastic made from soybeans are very interested. 1930 Ford soy plastic car everywhere. January 13, 1942 Ford reported that the one composed almost entirely of plastic car patents. It is lighter than the average car 30%, is said to withstand 10 times the normal vehicle impact. But this car has never been produced.
July 30, 1863 Greenfield was born in Michigan City. Irish immigrant father, the brothers Henry, ranked No. 1 among 6.
Resigned in 1898, became the first car company, but only produced 25 cars in 1900 after the ease of bankruptcy.
In 1913, Ford created the world's first automobile assembly line. This flow process came to be known as the "Ford" system, and widely throughout the world. This system is based on the organization to standardize mass production, mechanization and automation and to all operations, a high labor productivity, a production organization.
1919, Henry bought the other shareholders of the shares, exclusive of the company. He also used the funds to expand production, Citibank, the company became the 20th century the world's largest car company. Ford himself called the "automobile king", his family became the one of several major zaibatsu.
In 1929, U.S. President Hoover to participate in inauguration of the Ford Museum
In 1946, the "golden 50 years of car" because of the auto industry's contribution to Ford awarded him the honorary award; "New York Times" commented: Ford is not only the founder of the Ford Motor Company and also led the development of the auto industry
2005 "Forbes" magazine published a history of the 20 most influential entrepreneurs, Henry Ford topped the title: "My life and work"
"I agreed as an interim measure." Ford recalls. He returned to the farm, part of the cut wood to build his own "marriage house" - hidden inside a workplace. This period of seclusion from the beginning, Henry Ford as a master auto mechanic, assembly of the key, and later as a manager he was familiar with every detail of the process.
In 1896, Henry Ford put the first one in Detroit, "gasoline carriage" opening on the Avenue; in August 1899, aged 37, he resigned from the power company, engaged in all of our energy from the car business. Firm support for his wife.
"Despite the lessons of the past, but I still want to develop their own stake in less than a controlling stake in the company," Henry Ford later recalled, "but soon I found myself must have a controlling interest." One day when production reached 100 vehicles, when some shareholders are strongly disturbed, they tried to stop Henry Ford management company. His answer was: "I have long hoped to produce 1,000 vehicles a day."
Ford developed magically fast. Since history is written by the victors, as in mature markets have existed only in the mind of Henry Ford, since he won the gamble, so he was right.
Henry Ford has long been considered to financial capital and borrowing behavior of bias, the Wall Street excited. A treatment plan is: to borrow money. In exchange for huge loans to banks on behalf of Ford as a financial director.
"To expand the production to borrow money is one thing, to make up for the wrong management and waste and borrow money is another matter." Kick down the counter-war industrial capitalists reflection, "banker in fact his credit and by controlling the control of general entrepreneurs. bankers had too comfortable. "
At first, Ford in a factory assembly of motor vehicles, and later as its manufacturing parts of the beginning of the department, each department is responsible only for one thing. Fine division of labor under the Ford purchase of spare parts to reduce the outside, but manufactured outside parts. A high degree of standardization, a high degree of division of labor is no longer concentrated in a large industrial factory.
Enough to affect the stability of the production materials, spare parts, "not in the arms", so Ford's production from weather, war. On the contrary, in addition to the Navy during the war they manufactured submarines, tanks for the Army's manufacturing, but also for the United Kingdom provides a 5000 farm tractor. Prestigious Ford Model T the first one to use their own vehicle engine manufacturing, is Henry Ford in the eyes of the "final model."
"A group of people working together, not to write to each other; on people who, in order to work together, no need to love each other." He believes that "a lot of labor unrest are originated in the lower-level managers who unfairly exercise of power. "
I think this is normal. This division of responsibilities than under the title, to get job promotion as a goal to work well.
"As a leader, the employer's goal should be compared with the industry, an enterprise can be any higher wages to the workers." Embodies the concept of Henry Ford's wages, "enlightened self-interest thinking": the workers get 6 dollars per day of minimum wage; working hours from 9 hours into the first 8 hours.
In addition to wages, there are benefits. Enjoy the benefits that: the burden of family life, married men, and "frugal" and support for single men and women relatives.
"Wages solve nine-tenths of mental problems." Ford concluded. "Just as we do not know to what extent higher wages, as lower prices to what extent we do not know."
Process decomposition, optimization
To the piston rod assembly, for example, in accordance with the old-fashioned way, 28 individual assembly 175 a day - every 3 minutes 5 seconds; foreman of action with a stopwatch, and found half the time to walk back and forth, each person should be six action, and he transformed the process, the workers were divided into three groups - no longer need to move around, and stool uploaded wheel drive - now seven individuals will be able to assemble 2600 per day.
That era's best big magician
Henry Ford insisted on a free economy, against monopolies (he ate "line will organize" the bitterness); firmly opposed to opportunism, and the investment as "speculative"; he established vocational schools to provide tens of thousands of poor children learning and work opportunities, construction of hospitals, railways, compared with peer set a benchmark.
Historical Contribution
Model T in October 1, 1908 launch, millions of Americans soon so fascinated. Model T not only provided people with the possibility of independence and more opportunities for and the price is very reasonable, the initial price of 850 dollars. With the design and production to continue to improve, eventually fell to 26O dollars. The first year, T Model's production reached 10,660, setting a record of the automotive industry. To 1921, T Model car production output transport accounted for 56.6% of the world.
To 1927, T Model in the acclaimed throughout the world, he became a symbol of cheap and reliable transportation. Ford Motor Company has created a huge permanent car market, led the global auto industry. By the end of 1913, the U.S. sold nearly half of Ford car production. To 20 years, more than half of the world were Ford car registration plates.
8 hours 5 dollars in wages, change the way American workers work
Grasp the financial power to make room for him to fully realize their dreams, take risks; with core production technology to make large-scale production for a stable support; "no title of management" to increase the internal operation of the oil, "high wages + benefits" to workers dignity, work hard; long-term process of decomposition of accumulated optimize the experience eventually led to surprising innovation.
Arrangements for workers in accordance with procedures and tools, so that the whole process into finished products, each component will be through the shortest possible distance;
Process-oriented, to ensure the smooth and efficient process itself is its essence. These principles, the workers thought to reduce the unnecessary and stay, to reduce the complexity of the movement to a minimum, almost only one action to complete the thing.
With assembly line, Henry Ford, "a single species, very large scale" strategy to be implemented. Model T produced in 20 years, 15 million, five or six thousand dollar car from the "rich man's patent" a few hundred dollars into the mass consumer.
The story of Henry Ford
Years later, Ford's curiosity and his tinkering has paid off. He dreamed of moving to create a non-horse vehicle. He built one of the car, the transport sector permanent changes have taken place.
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