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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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23 Working interface between Bell Laboratories and WE: on the design capability line at Allentown — the step between design and pilot line — Western development engineer Robert Whitner, left, and Bell Laboratories Paul Perron determine if newly designed products will be amenable to manufacture. Today its beam lead integrated circuits, says Mr. Perron. Tomorrow it may be something else, requiring different materials, different methods and equipment. Whatever it is, it will require continuous coordination between research and manufacturing.
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24 by change. They thrive on it. Thats one reason theyrehere. When a new product gets through the coursehere, the production process has been broken downinto separate operations that can be learned andhandled efficiently by the operators on the line. Says Mr. Anderson, My idea of real sophistica-tion in a manufacturing process is simplicity. Onegood example is our introduction of the vibratingjig. This is a small, bench-mounted machine, essen-tially very simple, that enables the girls to handletiny piece parts and prepare them for mounting,hundreds at a time. The jig simply vibrates themuniformly into tiny holes in a plate, like bees return-ing dutifully to the honeycomb. Then they can bestacked up in jigs all at once for bonding, insteadof individually. Many operations, though, have to bedone individually, and here is where human judg-ment and skill come in. It is common, in fact pretty general, to view effi-cient manufacture as highly mechanized or, evenmore popularly, as automated.

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