Ford Motor Company: The River Rouge Manufacturing Complex

Ford Motor Company: River Rouge Manufacturing Complex The first document I gathered was a picture taken on the internet. This picture is the River Rouge assembly factory in Dearborn, Michigan. This picture shows the manufacture of the Fender of Ford Motor Company products. In addition, we introduce the latest technology of Rouge factory facilities and factory itself. The plant was the largest of its kind. The Ford Motor Company was one of the leaders of industrial relations at the time.

The Ford Motor Company has become one of the largest industrial parks in the United States, and surprisingly it all started in Michigan. This complex is spreading along the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan. This is more than just a factory and contains all the potential elements needed for automobile manufacturing. Ironworks, glass factory, automobile assembly line. For Henry Ford, this was not only to help promote T-type economic growth but also to boost the economy when he proposed the assembly line. The assembly line did a lot of good things for the general people and the company. By using the assembly line, throughput is improved and cost is reduced. More than 10 million T cars were sold by 1924, and Detroit became the center of automobile manufacturing in the United States.

Eight years after construction began, Ford's huge river rouge factory began to produce cars completely. Vertically integrated factory is Henry Ford's vision. The complete car can be built from scratch without relying on external suppliers, using raw materials owned and supplied by Ford Motor Company. Ford said to his colleagues, "Raw material enters one end of the Rouge factory and the finished car leaves the other end."

Subsidiary of Ford Motor Company (acquisition date): 1918 Henry Ford & Son (tractor built in River Rouge) Dearborn Publishing Company (Dearborn Independent) 1919 - Village Industries 1920 Michigan Iron, land and timber Company (Wood and iron ore) Detroit, Toledo, and Iron Tong Railway 1923 Fordson Coal Company (Virginia and Kentucky Coal Mine) Allegheny Flat Glass Factory 1925 Stout Metal Aircraft Company 1927 Compania Ford Industrial Brazil ("Ford Landia") "Rubber"