Evolution of the 'system.' (mass production)(includes related articles on William S. Knudsen, Louis Polk, Philip M. McKenna, Charles B. DeVlieg, Wallace E. Brainard)

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Serious practitioners not at any time thought that the American combination of parts to form a whole would
or could at any time be as orderly and as turned when applied to the manufacture
and assembly of discrete parts, many times in small batches, as it already
was in like continuous-process industries as chemical and mineral tar
processing.

Until freshly that is. Since the Depression years and the great
war that brought them to an extremity a number of developments in tools,
in materials, in machining and forming processe in inspection and
control give faith that we may eventually achieve a veritable manufacturing
system.

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