When raw goods such as steal, leather, rubber, plastic, and glass reach the factory it is time for business. The goal of a factory is to not only get the product out with no mistake (or else beware of factory recall), but to get the product out in a timely fashion.
Developed by Henry Ford on December 1st of 1913, the assembly line, became the most efficient method to build cars both in the proper fashion and in a timely manor. The assembly line till this day is still efficiently used and has even taken on form in several factories outside of the car industry, although it is becoming increasing more common for machinery to complete tasks. Machinery is becoming so technologically advanced that it is becoming really tough for a human to be able to duplicate the work done of a machine, in addition to the fact that it eliminates human error. In addition to Ford speeding up the process of building cars while keeping the efficiency rating of the car high, he came up with the idea of interchangeable parts, or in other words, parts that can fit and be replaced to any type of model that is the same. This idea saved factories numerous hours as they could simply mass produce these parts and have them ready in event of an error occurring instead of having to remake them.
The factory process is rather complex today with several different units and components to every factory. First the component stage, where all the materials are gathered from another site and brought into the company’s warehouse. Next is the Chassis stage, where the car is essentially built from the ground up, that being the frame, the wheels, the axels, etc. The following stage is installing all of the inside features including the engine and any interior features that the car may have that need done before entering the body shop. In the body shop of a manufacture, this is where all the priming and painting of the vehicle occurs. It is here where several different colors are painted on to meet the desire of the consumers. The amount of colors that cars are created today is seemingly endless.
The factory population across the world today is growing and does not seem to be stopping anytime soon. With gas prices the lowest they have been in sometime, franchises have to meet the supply and demand needs of these consumers. Every car assembly plant built is more impressive than the last, but will be less impressive than the next. Toyota today holds the crown as the world’s largest automaker requiring them to also have the most facilities, with not only one in a country, but multiple in many of them.
Once a car is completed in the factory, they are ready to be shipped out to individual franchises on trucks like the one in the photo posted beneath here.
