NATS 1775 Lecture 9: Unit 9 - American System of Manufacturing
23 Jan 2019
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In the united states, we start to see a distinctive way of manufacturing that started after the first industrial revolution. Labeled the american system of manufacturing it is characterized by: the use of specialized machinery (single or special purpose machine tools, standardization, interchangeable parts. The use of highly specialized machine tools were used in factories and arranged in a particular way to facilitate continuous flow of production. Think of specialized machine tools as machines which make parts for other machines. These parts standardized, meaning they each part is produced with the same specifications. As a result, the parts are also interchangeable meaning you can substitute one part for another. Prior to the use of interchangeable and standardized parts, most machines were hand- crafted which meant that if something broke, you would have to go to the original manufacturer to have it fixed because each machine was unique.
