It can be seen the line chart illustates the statistics of the amount of average time taken by four companies, namely General Motor, Ford, Toyota and Honda, to manufacture new cars at their US factories from 1998 to 2005.
Overall, the main thing that can be observed here is that General Motor vehicle manufactures witnessed a sharp decreased in average hours during this period. Meanwhile, the amount of time spent by Ford company climbed rapidly.
In 1998, General Motor manufacturers was the factory that needed the largest amount of time per vehicle about at 32 hours, while the figure for Ford was 28 hours. However , 3 years later, Ford surpass General Motor and became the slowest factory in producing vehicles, with the number increasing dramatically to nearly 32 hours per product, then declining again.
On the other hand, Toyota and Honda started with similar figures of 22 hours for their production times. Both companies had periods of fluctuations in the subsequent years, they also managed to reduce the amount of time to 20 hours per vehicle.