Not so long ago manufacturers depend on horse-drawn carriages to deliver each frame to the workers.
In pursuit of efficiency, Henry Ford launched the industry's first moving assembly line at the Highland Park Plant in Detroit, Michigan, in 1913.
It consisted of a rope-and-pulley system moved that vehicle down a line of workers, each with a specific task. It drastically cut the man-hours required to assemble a Model T -- from 12-and-a-half-hours, down to six.
100+ years later, the moving assembly line is a fundamental part of car manufacturing around the world -- though you'd be hard pressed to find a rudimentary rope-and-pulley nowadays.
Superstrong robots, some with "laser eyes," perform everything from welding, to die casting and painting, alongside their human colleagues on the factory floor.
Today, Ford has over 20,000 robots in operation globally.
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In pursuit of efficiency, Henry Ford launched the industry's first moving assembly line at the Highland Park Plant in Detroit, Michigan, in 1913.
It consisted of a rope-and-pulley system moved that vehicle down a line of workers, each with a specific task. It drastically cut the man-hours required to assemble a Model T -- from 12-and-a-half-hours, down to six.
100+ years later, the moving assembly line is a fundamental part of car manufacturing around the world -- though you'd be hard pressed to find a rudimentary rope-and-pulley nowadays.
Superstrong robots, some with "laser eyes," perform everything from welding, to die casting and painting, alongside their human colleagues on the factory floor.
Today, Ford has over 20,000 robots in operation globally.
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