What is the significance of Ford's development of the world's first automobile assembly line to the automobile industry?

Ford's greatest contribution to cars is mass production and making cars civilian.

1, each station (worker) repeats the simplest and same work every day, which improves the production efficiency and reduces the technical demand for workers.

Because workers always do the same simple work, they can reduce the error rate and improve the product quality accordingly.

3, it is conducive to mass production, thus reducing the price of products and making ordinary people can afford cars. Since then, automobile and its upstream and downstream manufacturing have become the largest industry in the world.

Acceleration principle:

An assembly line divides a repetitive process into several subprocesses, and each subprocess can operate in parallel with other subprocesses. Ford's assembly line not only puts cars on the assembly line, but also spends a lot of energy on improving labor productivity. Ford put the assembled car parts in an open box, put them on the conveyor belt and then sent them to the mechanic. Workers only need to stand on both sides of the conveyor belt.

Save the time of taking parts. When assembling the chassis, let the workers drag the chassis through a pile of pre-arranged parts, and the workers in charge of assembly only need to install it, which naturally speeds up the assembly.

He produced hundreds of thousands of cars a year. This new system is both effective and economical. Therefore, he reduced the price of cars by half, and the price of each car was $260, and the per capita income in the United States was $53,065,438. A worker can work for less than four months.