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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 20
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
There is no more sense in having extra weight in an article than there is in the cockade on a coachman's hat. In fact, there is not as much. For the cockade may help the coachman to identify his hat while the extra weight means only a waste of strength. I cannot imagine where the delusion that weight means strength came from. It is all well enough in a pile-driver, but why move a heavy weight if we are not going to hit anything with it? In transportation why put extra weight in a machine? Why not add it to the load that the machine is designed to carry? Fat men cannot run as fast as thin men but we build most of our vehicles as though dead-weight fat increased speed! A deal of poverty grows out of the carriage of excess weight. Some day we shall discover how further to eliminate weight. Take wood, for example. For certain purposes wood is now the best substance we know, but wood is extremely wasteful. The wood in a Ford car contains thirty pounds of water. There must be some way of doing better than that. There must be some method by which we can gain the same strength and elasticity without having to lug useless weight. And so through a thousand processes.
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定位:Additional excerpt 20 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
福特认为,物品上多出来的重量毫无意义,就像马车夫帽子上的帽徽,甚至更糟:帽徽还能帮人认帽子,多余重量只浪费力气。他质疑“重代表结实”的迷信:打桩机需要重,但运输工具为什么带多余重量?为什么不把重量加到载货上?胖子跑不过瘦子,可我们造车却像脂肪能提速。很多贫困就来自搬运多余重量。他以木材为例:福特车里的木头含三十磅水,太浪费,总该有办法在保持强度和弹性的同时去掉无用重量。核心是:减重就是省力、省钱,要持续寻找更轻更强的材料与结构。
上下文
福特在自传中谈汽车设计中的减重理念,强调材料效率与成本控制,反映他大规模生产的思想。
今日一问
你手头的工作或产品,有哪些“多余重量”可以去掉而不影响效果?
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