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Personnel of the shop inspection force. Duties of the incoming-material inspectors, foundry inspectors, machine inspectors, operation inspectors, floor or final inspectors, night inspectors, rejected-components inspectors, scrap inspectors, and traveling inspectors. What is done with wasters. Inspection forms and blanks.
Ford shops assembling. General methods; minute subdivision of work, and assembling by moving the principal component of each assembly past successive sources of minor-component supply. Condensed examples of the time savings effected. The system studied in detail by following characteristic assemblies. Assembling the piston and connecting rods. Plan and elevation of the bench used. New practice contrasted with older methods. How the time was cut down to one-half that formerly needed. Height and speed Of the moving assembly lines. Assembling the fly-w heel magneto. Details of old and new practice showing a saving of 33% per cent. Assembling the trans mission cover. How the moving assembly speeds were determined. Motor assembling studied in detail with data and many illustrations of its eighty-four operations by which the time was cut from 594 minutes to 226 minutes.
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