The moving assembly line, introduced by Ford in Michigan, slashed vehicle production time from around a year down to just minutes by breaking manufacturing into single repetitive tasks for each worker. This innovation popularized mass manufacturing and reshaped global economic and consumer culture, and it also enabled Ford to establish the standard nine-to-five workday, a major break from prior labor norms where breaks and weekends were not expected.
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The hosts note that Ford's current CEO has cited the original assembly line as inspiration for a new EV meant to compete with China's BYD, the world's top-selling EV maker.
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39:26Michigan." And it's an industrial innovation because it slashed vehicle production times to from like a year to like a few minutes or something like that. It was crazy because you've got an industrial line. Every single worker is doing just one little thing. And it popularized mass manufacturing. It reshaped global economic and consumer culture. And it also allowed him to create the um workday, you know, the nineto-five workday, which back then was crazy because back then it was just like, "No, just work, >> right? >> What do you mean? What do you mean you want a break? What do you mean you want weekends?" >> Uh, interesting side note, the CEO of Ford just went on talking about their new UEV, inspired by Ford in terms of
40:09how they will now compete with China's BYD, Build Your Dreams, who are the number one EV on the planet. and they've really looked to some of the me the concepts of how uh the moving assembly