NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: James J. Couzens, Luxury Vehicle, Interchangeable Parts
12 Dec 2019
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The ford motor company and mass production- early years. Create a car for the masses, for everyone. Ford had to figure out 2 important things to fulfil philosphy; 1. Willing to hire people from different industries. Ford was told about the benefits of vertical integration. Flanders is a great example of knowledge diffusion: he helped show ford the. James couzens suggested manufacturing parts links between buying material production and selling and helped make him realize the importance of using interchangeable parts. The building were built wide and long and were linked to each other via cranes as a way to allow materials to be moved around with ease. Development of the moving assembly line and mass production. Even though ford tries to new technique, can increase production but it will stagnant in the long run. Ford came up with the idea of the assembly line.
