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The True Intention of the Ford System

The Ford System and the Toyota System

HENRY FORD (1863–1947), without dispute, created the automobile production system.

Strictly speaking, there may be as many ways of making automobiles as there are automobile companies or individual manufacturing plants. This is because production methods reflect the philosophy of business management and the individuality of the person in charge of the plant. However, the basis of automobile production as a modern industry is the mass-production system that Ford himself practiced.

The Ford system symbolizes mass production and sales in America even today. It is ...

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