USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ Henry Ford’s new method of building cars had two advantages:speed and reduced cost. What was this method called?
A
Single unit production
B
Assembly train
C
Assembly line
D
Moving work bench
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The automotive conveyor-belt system, which Henry Ford modeled after an assembly-line technique introduced by Ransom Olds, reduced from a day and a half to 93 minutes the required time of assembling a Model T. Q.

Detailed explanation-2: -Henry Ford famously remarked that the use of the moving assembly line allowed for the work to be taken to workers rather than the worker moving to and around the vehicle. The vehicle began to be pulled down the line and built step-by-step.

Detailed explanation-3: -A well-known pioneer of mass production was the car manufacturer Henry Ford. He adapted the assembly line method of mass production. He realised that the ‘assembly line’ method would allow a faster and cheaper way of producing vehicles.

Detailed explanation-4: -Society was also impacted by Henry Ford Assembly Line in many positive ways, like creating many more jobs for the low skilled workers. Profit-sharing payments to keep workers at the plant and increase wages to a $5 workday. Increased productivity and efficiency resulted in a reduction in costs of the product.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ford made the production of T-motor possible with assembly-line methods. In this system workers arranged the parts in a row then they put the under construction on auto, then skids and dragged it down the line on which the workers were working. Later the streamlining process was launched which was more sophisticated.

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