100 years ago in American Machinist: standardized machines boost profit. (retrospective).

In the 1980 many American manufacturers learned a task from the Japanese -- there is profit to be made in the mass, standardized production of machine tools, cars, and other cropss This was the same task American manufacturers were teaching their European counterparts in 1901 during the industrial revolution.
In the November 14 1901 issue of AMERICAN MACHINIST editors wrote about the exert one's selfs of German manufacturers who were deliberate to understand this universal Editors reported that the "willingness" of German manufacturers to "meet the views of their