At the beginning time of ford, the manufacturing cost of each car was very high, and the cars were a luxurious item. Those limited number of cars can be owned by only the richest people on that time. Henry ford brought Taylor to his company to find out the flaws of the process and accelerate the process. Taylor was a mechanical engineer, but he had rich knowledge about working with workers and industrial work. At first, he found out the flows and then he fixed those. For example, rearrange the instruments, breaking the large process into smaller process, hiring the fastest typist etcetera. Ford and Taylor together included few rules and regulations which improved the total car manufacture process. This is Ford and Taylorism. By following their process ford had been exponentially increased the number of car production worldwide (Clarke, 2005). They started the first ever assembly line production line.
One of the most challenging change was to divide a big process into smaller tasks. So that, it reduced dependency and waiting period. Also, small task was easier to learn. Most of the work was repetitive and less innovation needed. Still overall process time was not good enough and that moment, Ford found the game changer solution. He started to move the car while work is on progress towards workers instead of moving workers towards stationary car. It helped to distribute work among the workers into subdivisions (Boje and Winsor, 1993). Another important decision was to distribute the works according to the expertise and separate them from each other, which could facilitate the total process (Levinson, 2002).
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