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How the assembly line turned 12 hours into 93 minutes.

Until 1913 at Ford, the car stood still and workers walked to it with parts. Then Ford reversed the principle: the chassis moves on a chain past stationary workers, each performing one task, with parts arriving via chutes. Assembly time for a chassis dropped from 12.5 hours to 93 minutes. The chain now set the pace.

Useful: Bring the work to the person rather than the person to the work, and you save the walking.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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What was the core idea of Ford's 1913 assembly line?

  1. Workers walk faster to the car
  2. The workpiece moves to the workers
  3. Robots take over assembly
  4. Each worker builds a whole car
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Correct: The workpiece moves to the workers

The chassis moved past stationary workers, each doing a single task.

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