" . . . What was worked out at Ford was the practice of moving the work from one worker to another until it became a complete unit, then arranging the flow of these units at the right time and the right place to a moving final assembly line from which came a finished product. Regardless of earlier uses of some of these principles, the direct line of succession of [this process] and its intensification into automation stems directly from what we worked out at Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1913. . . ."-Charles E. Sorenson, My Forty Years with Ford What new business technique referred to in this passage lowered manufacturingcosts and also the prices of products?

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