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Victorious

Modern  Process  Innovation  

Henry  Ford  

&  the  Model  T  

 WEEKLY  –  EVERY  THURSDAY  

Craft  Production  Extinct?  

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Creation  

Innovation  

Ideas  

SPECIAL  

Contents  

Meet  the  Team  

The  Team  Editor  in  Chief  

Simon  Ramsden  

Managing  Editor  

Jay  Gada  

Executive  Editor  

Shannie  Tu  

Creative  Director  

Flavia  Vintila  

Copy  Editor  

Emma  –Zhuo  Yi  

Fact  Checker  

Ivy  Huang  

CONTEN

TS  

QUICKview  Process  Innovation  explained  in  shape    

and  color!    

Craft  Production      Extinct?  Not  really!  

A  review  of  craft  production  in  the  21st  century  and  modern  firms  who  still  use  it  

The  Mass  Production  SPECIAL  

Ë Henry  Ford’s  approach  to  mass  production

Ë Standardization  and  why  was  it  important?

Ë Importance  of  factory  layout  in  mass  production

Ë Importance  of  interchangeable  parts

Ë Ford’s  approach  to  the  motor  car

Ë The  Ford  ‘system’ Ë The  key  to  combining  quality,  reliability  and  low  price

Ë The  Model  T

Ë Taylorism  

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QUICKview  OR   How   The   Editorial   Team  Plays  Around  with  SmartArt  

What  is  ‘Process  Innovation’?  

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Levels  of  Process  Innovation  

Impact  on  Organization  and  Point  of  Attach  within  Organization  grow  with  each  widening  circle  

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Factory  System  emerged  in  19th  century  as  various  industries  attempted  to  move  process  product  from  “Craft”  stage  to  more  efficient  mode  of  operation  aimed  at  economies  of  scale.  

In  21st  century  Capitalism  exist  amongst  most  countries,  very  few  that  is  still  of  communism  nature  –  North  Korea.  Capitalism’s  main  feature  is  that  it  fully  eradicated  the  importance  of  craftsmanship  and  focused  on  division  of  labour.    This  shift  of  view  from  craftsman  to  labour  has  totally  changed  how  people  think  they  can  earn  a  living  than  where  by  a  person  would  intern  under  a  specific  master  at  a  certain  skill  and  process  all  his  skill  in  matters  of  years.    

As  the  meaning  of  “Craft”  would  be  “an  art,  trade,  or  occupation  requiring  special  skill”  (dictionary.com)  which  means  a  “craftsman”  means  a  person  possessing  the  skill.    

We  would  say  that  even  doctors  who  has  skill  of  healing  is  a  craftsman  of  this  modern  society  though  it  does  not  comes  under  the  category  of  Process  innovation  but  the  service  innovation.  We  agree  that  craftsmanship  is  different  from  what  was  in  the  past.    

The  labour  class,  due  to  the  poverty  and  lack  of  education,  they  are  unable  to  rose  and  become  professionals  that  doesn’t  mean  that  they  are  doomed  to  be  workers  under  the  capitalist  for  eternality.  There  are  many  other  types  of  workers  who  are  more  advanced  in  class  than  of  their  counter  parts  that  we  see  today  in  factories.    

Ferrari,  Lamborghini  ,  BMW-­‐  The  world’s  most  sought  after  and  expensive  luxury  automobile  company,  the  reason  behind  this  expensive  price  tag  is  due  to  the  elaborated  assembly  line  that  it  had  where  craftsmanship  is  involved  as  the  workers  manually  assembles  the  vehicle,  from  the  body  of  the  car  to  the  leather  sewn  for  making  seat  and  interior.    The  fact  is  –  End  product,  which  is  the  automobile  is  over  80%  hand  assembled.    We  would  say  that  the  worker  are  semi-­‐craftsman  as  they  know  about  a  particular  job  scope  but  know  more  than  a  common  worker    (Ultimate  Factories,  National  Geography  Channel,  2007)  

21st  century  Car  Assembly  Line  

19th  century  

18th  century  

20th  &  21st  century  (Guitar  Manufacturing  

Unit)  

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So,  how  WAS  the  Model  T  suitable  for  US  market  conditions?  

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Ford  Model  T  (also  called  Tin  Lizzie  or  Flivver)  is  a  classics  type  of  car  that  produced  by  Ford  Motor  Company  (It  was  founded  by  Henry  Ford  and  incorporated  on  June  16,  1903)  between  1908  and  1927  in  America.    

The  first  finished  model  of  Ford  Model  T  was  born  on  September  27,  1908.  So  that  the  year  became  the  one  with  significant  meaning  in  the  industrial  history  because  of  creating  Model  T  and  this  type  must  be  the  most  successful  cars  in  the  history  of  the  United  States.    

In  1913,  the  Ford  Motor  Company  established  the  first  moving  assembly  line  and  used  in  large-­‐scale  manufacturing  process.    

In  the  end  of  nineteen  century,  customers  in  the  America  tended  to  buy  the  commodities  with  low  price  and  easy  to  get,  so  the  company  attempted  to  increase  the  efficiency  and  extend  the  range  of  distribution  in  order  to  raise  output  and  reduce  cost.    

Therefore,  the  production  concept  focused  on  production  than  marketing,  it  means  what  the  company  sold  based  on  the  production,  they  didn’t  notice  the  requirement  of  customers,  such  as  they  only  sale  the  car  with  single  color  

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and  type.    

The  critical  factor  cause  success  of  the  Model  T  is  that  Ford  increase  productivity  for  output  per  unit  of  input.  Both  specialization  and  segment  of  labor  helped  Ford  Motor  Company  to  raise  Model  T  productivity.  Ford  discovered  it  is  more  efficient  to  built  assembly  line  production  than  make  individual  workers  to  do  a  complete  products,  that  is  to  say,  they  changed  their  strategy  from  single  work  to  divide  the  work,  furthermore,  interchangeable  components  made  this  novel  way  to  organize  production  possible.    

On  the  other  hand,  Model  T  concluded  four  great  features:  Reliable,  durable,  easy  maintenance  and  the  important  point  is  that  the  price  is  affordable  for  general  people,  thus  it  became  popular  on  the  car  market,  the  market  share  higher  than  60%  at  one  time.  The  pattern  ‘  one  principle  type  is  suitable  for  every  user’  made  car  as  a  utility  tool  and  sell  to  publics  normally.    

The  United  States  has  since  become  a  kingdom  on  the  "car".  

 

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BOOK    Review    

One  of  the  more  pessimistic  views  of  humanity’s  future  is  explained  in  minute  detail  in  Aldous  Huxley’s  ‘Brave  New  World’.  The  book’s  tone  is  largely  due  to  the  time  it  was  written,  between  the  First  World  War  and  World  War  II  and  to  the  changes  those  hard  times  brought  upon  society.  The  socialism  of  that  time  became  the  totalitarian  World  State,  growing  materialism  and  weakening  religious  beliefs  became  the  religion  of  consumerism  with  Henry  Ford  acting  as  its  god.  The  divine  role  was  thrust  upon  him  because  the  mass-­‐production  of  his  T-­‐Model  vehicles  leads  to  the  mass-­‐production  of  human  beings  in  ‘Brave  New  World’.  

‘Brave  New  World’  introduces  a  London  600  hundred  years  in  the  future  (“After  Ford”).  Human  life  has  become  industrialized  and  is  under  the  rule  of  ten  people  who  are  at  the  top  of  the  World  State.  Humans  are  not  born  anymore,  but  are  genetically  engineered,  divided  into  specific  castes  ranging  from  the  Alpha+  to  Epsilons,  each  group  color-­‐coded  and  conditioned  from  birth  to  accept  their  given  life  with  blind  gratitude.    

The  World  State’s  motto  is  “Community.Identity.Stability”.  It  becomes  glaringly  clear  from  the  first  chapters  how  the  free-­‐willed  individual  has  been  sacrificed  to  maintain  this  futuristic  dystopia’s  deceiving  social  stability.  Scientific  advances,  such  as  Bokanovsky’s  Process,  are  used  to  mass-­‐produce  humans,  effectively  destroying  the  meaning  of  the  word  ‘family’.  More  so,  several  techniques  engineered  for  better  purposes,  like  hypnopaedia  or  sleep-­‐teaching,  are  abused  and  used  to  further  condition  and  control  the  masses.  “Everybody  belongs  to  everybody”  (Huxley,  1932)  is  a  phrase  drilled  mercilessly  into  young  minds,  further  underlining  the  main  point  of  this  society:  there  are  no  individuals,  there  is  only  the  society  itself,  a  well-­‐built  machine  whose  parts  are  easily  and  actively  replaced;  no  one  is  more  important  than  another  in  the  grand  scheme  of  things.  

Now,   you’ve   seen   how  beneficial  Ford’s  genius  has  been   to   the   world.   But,   we  at   Victorious   Secret,   would  consider  it  a  waste  if  we  do  not   recommend   the  following   book   in  concordance   with   our  special  on  Henry  Ford.  

BRAVE  NEW  WORLD  Aldous  Huxley  1932  London