Ford's 'virtual factory' aims to give customers exactly what theywant and slash costs dramatically. Jason Hobby reports.
It's a remark that has gone down in the annals of manufacturing history. When Henry Ford famously decreed that Model T customers could have any colour car they wanted providing it was black, it set...
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