Ford Rouge Plant Story

[@karlmiller7500]

The Rouge is an awesome piece of iconic American history.

[@robertchristie9434]

After mustering out of the Army, I started my Tool & Die apprenticeship at the Rouge Dearborn assembly plant in October of '68. We were building '69 Mustangs & Cougars at the time. Production rate was 2 shifts, 72 cars per hour, 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. The weekend was for line repair & maintenance. I was assigned to final assembly support & tool maker for whatever was required. Enjoyed every minute of it, great memories of an impressive complex.

[@KingRoseArchives]

Thanks for sharing!

[@mikemintun1587]

The present-day Tour of the Rouge plant is well worth the time and effort. I was amazed at what has been done here, and the entire manufacturing process of Ford's F-150 line of trucks, is quite spectacular to behold. The docents were friendly and knowledgeable. It is well worth your time and effort to see this historic plant.

[@tomsampson8084]

I grew up in Detroit in the '60's. I remember taking the Rouge plant tour as a kid in school. Just out of high school I worked in an auto plant (Chevy) prior to college. I eventually worked for the Michigan DNR as a hazardous waste inspector in 1990. In those years the auto makers fought tooth and nail against the environmental regulations we were enforcing. Over the next decade a new regime took over leadership of the auto companies and they began to accept and eventually embrace the environmental upside of how they ran their companies. My last job as an inspector with the DEQ (at that time) was the Rouge plant. It was always sad when I went there and remembered my early days when the auto industry was so strong and plants like this had been so vital. It was encouraging to see that in a relatively short time a new generation of management realized environmental responsibility was not only good PR, it also was a way to save money. My very last inspection was of the Dearborn Truck Assembly plant.

[@stevenvanheel3932]

So let me get this straight: government organizations like the DNR and the EPA start coming up with all of these new rules and regulations costing these companies billions (not to mention the financial strain the union already has them under) and people like you who enforce that BS wonder why all of the manufacturing is going to other countries? All of this government control is the degradation of this great country and here you are proud to be a part of the problem. As a member of the new generation who gets to deal with the actions of our parents and grandparents generations- I can’t even begin to tell you how much that irritates the hell out of me.

[@rockandroll4689]

yuck - sorry you had to work at a gm plant....

[@asteverino8569]

a very nice and polished ad for Ford.

[@OnerousEthic]

Before FMC had an IT department, my grandfather, Robert E. Houston, was the IT department. He was #1 at the steel mill and #4 at Willow Run…

[@behindthespotlight7983]

Are you kidding?? We went to May of 1999 but omitted the massive explosion that cost many workers’ their lives when boiler number six exploded? Just weeks after that press conference. It leveled areas built in 1924-27. Witnesses compared it to Pearl Harbor. Massive chapter left on the cutting room floor. Very strange editorial choice….

[@nealfry2230]

" God Bless The Ford Rouge Complex " " She helped America win World War II."

[@Rajnoma]

It's really wonderful to see that this marvel of engineering, the Rouge Plant, is being refurbished for the 21st century. We must do all we can to keep these well-paying manufacturing jobs here in the US. What an interesting concept this entire plan is.

[@Koftannaw]

Fascinating!!! I am definitely sharing this :)!!!

[@KingRoseArchives]

Thank you. Please do share. It points toward what we can do now and in the future.

[@663rainmaker]

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[@billcoley8520]

How long did it take to build all of the forms and dyes before anything could become a product? This took such insight and forward thinking. Especially making steel with those huge ladles

[@drkn9t]

I used to deliver car parts across the street to the dearborn plant.

[@jimpikoulis6726]

Dennis Profitt... Profitt's the name and is the game

[@Bxtskul1l]

It's good that they focused on the environment during the revitalization effort, as they were previously dumping toxic water back into the Rouge River for decades.

[@playaplaya614ify]

Right learned that from dudes story on here. The explosion survivor.

[@adamberndt4190]

It's been 25 years since they announce the revitalization plan and Fords still not finished! The ENTIRE site was built in way less time then the rehab is taking!

[@jepkofficial]

Funny, we never learn about this stuff in school ...

[@billcoley8520]

hmm I didn’t learn anything in school that I use in my normal life. I was a lineman for a power company in Florida. I sit here in amazement when I’m watching videos of steel making. Even when they use a 200 ton press to flatten a chunk of steel.

[@floydestelle6242]

Hell you never heard about our history, it's something to be very proud of and should be celebrated. Not what this modern kids think, they just don't have a glue

[@DetectiveNigginz-n9h]

No a days in welfare education they just try and confuse you about genders so they can't get anything basic right, they didn't teach me anything useful in the 80s-90s.

[@markchirillo5083]

what i have always wanted to know is how he got all this land,who had it before him,where s the story on this.

[@KingRoseArchives]

Ford bought it at different periods over a few years time. He also bought the land for the museum and his estate. It's where he grew up.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Fred: I notice how you say, "The Rouge River property still was not earmarked for any particular use or zoned for any use.". Earmarked by who, government? We did not have as much of a "mixed economy" in those days, and had more freedom to build great things like this, (not with a union either). That ended in the 40's, when the mixed economy government illegally kept Tucker from competing. Following those principles, we only have 2 car companies in the USA today, when we used to have thousands in the land of opportunity.

[@ronaldarchibald2506]

@@EarthSurferUSA guess who rebuilt the rouge complex into the world class facility it is today. Yep union skilled tradesmen. The highest skilled tradesmen in the world. By the way union tradesmen built it when it was new also. My union worked on it's original build and on it's rebuild into what it is today. Ibew the right choice well over 100 yrs old. Pretty much every major complex in the USA we helped construct. We helped get to the moon. . Even non union Toyota uses union tradesmen to build their plants in the USA. Every one of them constructed union even down south..They want it done right the first time apparently.

[@DavidJohnson-rd5wy]

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[@DavidJohnson-rd5wy]

@@EarthSurferUSA EASY THERE GUNPOWDER!! That fella hasn't got a response that would explain anything.And furthermore he don't even know what a vise is, let alone an indicator or Bridgeport! I work in the jobshop world as well and have seen my share of union workers and it's pitiful..They even dare call themselves a machinist when they've made the same 2 simple parts for 20 years..You should see what happens when u tell them to set-up a new job, nevermind program it.. I'm afraid it's a dying trade.. I

[@upnhere8513]

This paints fluffy idyllic picture of the River Rogue Plant. While it was a technical marvel this video ignored Ford's "Service Department" and Sociological Department which was terrible to its employees and monitored employee bank accounts and children's school records. Hired thugs with dodgy pasts to take the relm of Service Department which was essentially a private police department; talking and sometimes even going to the washroom was disallowed. Least we forget what Ford wrote in his own publication the Dearborn Independent. And yet, his creations essentially created the American middle class. A lot of good with the bad.

[@brentsrx7]

I have never seen so much advocacy for industrial automation. The UAW is willing to shut down factories, just to bring attention to the inefficiency of hiring Communists. Great work!

[@mikedepascale2840]

fordever

[@Bxtskul1l]

LOL empowering the operator teams by replacing them with robots

[@Justincasethompson]

The living roof & other aspects should be noted & Incorporated in especially large cities in deserts. Large buildings such as convention centers, prisons, schools, etc. should Incorporate green technology to reduce & reuse. Drought resistant green roofs & surfaces that allow water to be filtered through plants & then eventually recharge aquifers or be directed into holding tanks is the only way to sustainable urban living especially in desert areas.

[@KingRoseArchives]

Absolutely. This is an example of what needs to be done globally. This and porous roads and parking lots that allow rain water to be absorbed and recharge the aquifers. We have the technology, the brilliant engineers and architects who can do this transformative work and more.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I think I see a hint of "reason" with your statement, but I think your reasoning is flawed. For example, porous roads? Roads do not retain water. If they did, we would be driving boats over them. So yea, "We should do this", but nobody has a rational reason of why. Plenty of irrational reasons that are actually not reality, (like a need for porous roads and plants on a roof), but nothing with actual "reason".

[@bigt3041]

But yet they want to charge more for a vehicle then it's worth. Keep the cars until prices come down to selling rates hell with Fords. I'll stick with my older vehicles.

[@stevenvanheel3932]

I really wish ford could/would go back to making vehicles like they did in the 1970’s. I can’t even believe the piss poor quality I see come off their assembly lines today. The fact that I am replacing engines in 2020 super duty’s meanwhile kleetus (the town drunk) is still cruising around in his 74 f100 really shows how good the old ones were and how crappy the new ones are.

[@wb3161]

It not that they aren’t built as good it’s the way they have to adapt to EPA

[@stevenvanheel3932]

@@wb3161 Ford’s are not by any means built well and they haven’t been for 20+ years. We could keep the shop running on Super Duty’s alone.

[@wb3161]

@@stevenvanheel3932 I have several and have all been very reliable cars. Power strokes are international designed from caterpillar hyd unitized injection systems until ford got out of the contract and started making their own 6.7 scorpion. Either way there’s more on the road anything else.

[@stevenvanheel3932]

@@wb3161 there are more super duty’s on the road then Chevy or dodges? Absolutely not. Chevy has been outselling ford since 2019 and ram trucks are more popular then ever. Pay attention to what you see driving on the interstates pulling trailers (hotshotters)- they will typically always be Ram trucks with Cummins diesels. Sure, you will see a 6.7 here and there because that’s the only diesel put into a super duty to date that has the ideal combination of power, reliability, drivability and economy. The 6.0 and the 6.4 are powerful engines but thats literally the only good thing you can say about them. They are steaming piles of garbage and I have worked on so many of them (not to mention watching the customers piss away their hard earned money on a terrible truck) that it’s not even funny. Hell, even when the duramax came out in 2001 it made more power then a 7.3 diesel, would start in way colder weather, and was way quieter. The drivability was also superior. All in all you can buy a GM or a Ram diesel pickup from 2001-2011 and not be able to wrong. Buy any ford from 2003-2010 and you can plan on putting all of your money into it and still having a turd with no resale value in the end.

[@wb3161]

@@stevenvanheel3932 well I think you might need to re evaluate your findings but don’t let it stress you out. You can like whatever you want.

[@ddkoda]

a good example of environmental stewardship as well as concern for the welfare of the community by committing to manufacturing which provides well paying jobs to the work force.

[@floydestelle6242]

To bad older cars were put together the same as newer cars. Junk

[@davidroberts5958]

Legal 420 now 🇺🇸

[@PaulHayman-tq5kb]

Go back to your roots and Start to make some not The crap they make today