After inventing the automotive assembly line that’s in use across the world these days, Ford has since worked to perfect its production process by incorporating technology with good old fashioned hard work. This process is always fascinating to watch, and in recent years, we’ve seen the Ford F-150 being built at the Kansas City Assembly plant, Ford Bronco production at the Michigan Assembly plant, as well as the assembly line-less way that the Ford F-150 Lightning gets built at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. Now, this new video from Frame takes a deeper dive into Ford Super Duty production at multiple U.S. plants.
First up, this video takes a close look at Ford Super Duty production at the Ohio Assembly plant in Avon Lake, a 3.7 million square-foot facility that opened up back in 1974, when it was used to built the Econoline. Today, this plant churns out the Ford E-Series cutaway and stripped chassis models, along with the Ford Super Duty F-250, F-350, F-450, F-550, and F-650.
Here, FoMoCo uses a pretty standard assembly process by modern standards, as these vehicles make their way down the line, coming together piece by piece along the way. However, more modern techniques such as using machinery to turn the frames upside down help make things easier on workers, who don’t have to contort their bodies in an uncomfortable manner – possibly risking injury – to install things like suspension components.
Man and machine work hand-in-hand to build Super Duty models at the Kentucky Truck plant in Louisville as well, a facility that originally opened back in 1969. Along with the F-250 through F-550 Super Duty, the Kentucky plant also builds the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator, conducting all sorts of quality checks before those vehicles are ultimately shipped to customers. Overall, this video provides a fascinating inside look at the Super Duty assembly process, one that makes us appreciate modern manufacturing even more than we already did.
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I guess one could say that I am a ford guy, I learned to drive in my mother's power blue 1960 Thunderbird, in 1971 I bought my own first car, I found a really good deal on a 1956 "Fairlane" 4 door with the 292 Thunderbird V8, paid hardly anything for the car but drove it for three years before buying my 1966 Mustang, the car needed a little love and that was under way when ti was totaled in an overtaking side swipe as I was turning left. Broke my heart, it really wasn't salvageable. Had a few years that I had other brands but in 1992 bought a 1985 F250 XL for towing my new travel trailer, and commuting to North Shore of Lake Tahoe, it never failed me. I bought a 1987 F350 Crew Cab but it had been miss treated and didn't hold up, but I knew that the Crew Cab was for me, in 2010 I bought a used 2008 F450 Crew Cab with the 6.4, started full-time RVing with that truck but the 2nd 6.4 gave up in 2017 when we bought out Magnetic Gray F350 Crew cab with the 6.7, Oh my, that truck was fantastic and it never failed us, we had always had a Ford dealer service the truck and drove it daily, we settled down in a new house and sold our 40 foot 5th wheel, we foolishly traded "Thor" for a small gasoline car. Now four years later I'm looking at the 2026 F250 4x4 with the King Ranch chrome Trim and the 7.3 Godzilla engine, considering the Star White metallic but would have absolutely loved the Silver Spruce, oh well just want the new truck sometime.
Sorry I ran on & on but I enjoyed sharing my ford history.
P.S. I really wanted a 1969 Mustang Mach 1 or the Boss 429, but those just weren't in the cards.
James Taylor