亨利·福特是著名的美国汽车制造商,发明装配线生产的方法,并于1913年首先在他的 T 型汽车生产过程中使用。这种生产技术节省时间,降低成本,使汽车售价为大众所能负担,从而使汽车普及为美国人的交通工具。他的企业管理思想很简单:降低产品价格,增加销售量,提高生产效率,增加产量以更低的价格出售,如此循环。他将大量生产的原则、空前的规模运用到工业中,为工业生产开辟了新时代,在世界工业史上占有一席之地。1943年亨利·福特去世,其孙亨利·福特二世任福特公司副总经理,1945年继任总经理,迅速开始实行企业现代化。他的极有才干的系统分析人员(即“神童”)中,包括后曾任福特公司总经理、美国防部长和世界银行行长的麦克纳马拉。1979年福特二世退休时,该公司职工50多万,在世界200个国家中设有办事处。——编者 Henry Ford, the famed American carmaker, invented the method of assembly line production and was first used in his T-car production in 1913. This production technique saves time and costs, making the car affordable to the public, making it universally accessible to Americans. His business management philosophy is simple: reduce product prices, increase sales, increase productivity, increase output and sell at a lower price, and so on. He applied the principle of mass production to the industry at an unprecedented scale, opened up a new era for industrial production and gained a place in world industrial history. Henry Ford died in 1943, his Sun Henry Ford II, Ford Motor Company deputy general manager, succeeded as general manager in 1945, the rapid implementation of enterprise modernization. Among his highly talented systems analysts (known as “prodigy”) are McNamara, formerly General Manager of Ford, Secretary of Defense of the United States and World Bank president. When Ford II retired in 1979, the company employs more than 500,000 people and has offices in 200 countries around the world. --editor