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Victorious
Modern Process Innovation
Henry Ford
& the Model T
WEEKLY – EVERY THURSDAY
Craft Production Extinct?
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
QUICKview OR How The Editorial Team Plays Around with SmartArt
What is ‘Process Innovation’?
Levels of Process Innovation
Impact on Organization and Point of Attach within Organization grow with each widening circle
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)
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".
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