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This illustrates how far we
are going in the manufacture of parts.
Hardly a week passes without some improvement being made somewhere in
machine or process, and sometimes this is made in defiance of what is
called "the best shop practice." I recall that a machine manufacturer
was once called into conference on the building of a special machine.
The specifications called for an output of two hundred per hour.
"This is a mistake," said the manufacturer, "you mean two hundred a
day--no machine can be forced to two hundred an hour."
The company officer sent for the man who had designed the machine and
they called his attention to the specification. He said:
"Yes, what about it?"
"It can't be done," said the manufacturer positively, "no machine built
will do that--it is out of the question."
"Out of the question!" exclaimed the engineer, "if you will come down to
the main floor you will see one doing it; we built one to see if it
could be done and now we want more like it."
The factory keeps no record of experiments.


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