Henry Ford
1863 – 1947 · United States · Business, Engineering
The moving assembly line and the five-dollar day created mass consumer industry.
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Continuity of ideas
Who shaped Henry Ford, and who they shaped
Inherited from2
- Frederick Winslow Taylor
1856 – 1915 · Business, Engineering
Scientific management supplies the time-study logic of the moving assembly line.
- Karl Benz
1844 – 1929 · Engineering
Ford industrialised the automobile Benz invented.
Passed the work to1
- Taiichi Ohno
1912 – 1990 · Business, Engineering
Ohno built the Toyota Production System by inverting Ford's batch-and-inventory model.
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