Thinking outside the box

28 Aug Thinking outside the box

Back when Henry Ford began making cars, he wanted them to be affordable by the average American family. Up to that point, automobiles were only available to rich men who had the money and the staff to keep them running.

Ford’s idea was to upset the market and focus on creating a car that “it will be so low in price that no man with a good salary would be unable to afford one”…

The problem was that the cost to manufacture one car was too high to make them affordable. One day he had an epiphany…

While visiting a friend at his Chicago meat packing plant, Ford noticed the way a cow would go from one station to another on a huge automated line. It would stop one station for a butcher to remove a hind quarter, then the next station where another worker would remove another part. Ford was open to thinking outside the box.

When he arrived back at his plant, he adopted this method (now known as the assembly line) and was able to greatly reduce the cost of manufacturing his automobiles, making them affordable to the masses.

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