(CBS News) Henry Ford introduced one of history's great innovations in October 1913 - the assembly line. The advance transformed the industry worldwide, and the mass-produced Model T helped create ...

Like saying night is day or Pink Floyd isn't the greatest rock band of all time, saying Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line goes contrary to conventional auto wisdom. But he didn't.

Forget the Model T—Ford’s real innovation was the moving assembly line. It didn’t just usher in the age of the car; it changed work forever. He first fully implemented his innovation on ...

Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line, but he used it to full advantage. Ford’s idea was simple: Construct cars using the same tools that slaughterhouses use to deconstruct cows.

Henry Ford launched the modern assembly line in a suburb of Detroit a century ago — and helped spark a radical transformation of both manufacturing and society. By drastically reducing the cost ...

On the 100th anniversary of Henry Ford’s invention of the moving assembly line, the company he founded outlined how it is still refining his ideas. On Oct. 7, 1913, Ford rigged up a rope tow to ...

When deciding to implement the assembly line, neither Sorensen nor Henry Ford nor anyone else involved had the benefit of time-motion studies. They simply reasoned that moving the component at a ...

In order to sell an affordable product, Henry Ford had to create more cars in less time. Inspired by the moving lines used at meat-packing plants, Ford’s factory tested an assembly line in the ...

However, after time, workers found the assembly line work boring and began to leave for other companies. In response, Henry Ford introduced the $5 workday, more than doubling the worker’s daily ...

HOMBURG, Germany—At an unassuming factory in this small town in southwestern Germany, not far from the French border, engineering group Robert Bosch GmbH has put an old-fashioned assembly line ...

Tesla is shifting from the traditional conveyor belt assembly line to subassembly areas. This could reduce costs by 40% and make factories cheaper to build. It's part of Tesla's strategy as it ...

At the end of the line, a completed vehicle is driven away. It is one of the miracles of the industrial age. Henry Ford (the first) is often credited with the invention of the auto assembly line ...