CHARLES E. SORENSEN


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Charles E. Sorensen

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.
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Sorensen and one of the foremen worked out the idea for the assembly line on one of their “days off.” The Model T car was the first item that was made using an assembly line where the work moved to the workers rather than the workers to the work.

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Former Vice President of the Ford Motor Company.