In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...

3M has teamed up with General Motors on something that has never been done before in automotive manufacturing: automating paint repair on a moving production line. GM is using 3M’s Finesse-it™ Robotic ...

Ford’s president and CEO offered an inside look at the auto company’s biggest manufacturing change since the Model T, while spotlighting a multi-billion-dollar bet on America’s supply chain. "We're ...

Sometimes, you just need to throw away the rulebook that you wrote a century ago. Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Jim Farley said the company’s $2 billion investment in manufacturing in Louisville to ...

Ford Motor Co., which famously popularized the assembly line, has joined Tesla Inc. and other EV makers around the world in a race to find a different, cheaper way to make a lot of cars, and fast. The ...

The automaker’s newest plant near Monterrey, Mexico, reportedly will ditch a moving assembly line that has been industry mainstay for more than a century. Tesla remains vague on details and hasn’t yet ...

Back in the Second World War, aircraft manufacturers looking for ways to speed up the assembly process came up with the moving production line. Now Boeing has gone back to that system and applied it ...

Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840s. Ford was born in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. His formal education was limited, but even as ...

There's a race to build more vehicles more efficiently, with Ford, Tesla and others trying to revamp the way cars are made Henry Ford sparked an industrial revolution with the automobile assembly line ...