. Bell telephone magazine . s,computers, and other needed tools ofthe combat forces. However, thewar work there is done now and theswitchboard cable work can take its ganizing a war manufacturing plantsuch as Hawthorne was. Nothing has been said, however,of the details of the job—the ques-tions which must be answered, like: —how many machines? —what type? —how many people? —number and type of benches? —will a given shop operate oneshift, two, or three? i68 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN —what about flow of materialsand finished parts? Conveyors?Aisle space required? When dozens of questions li
. Bell telephone magazine . s,computers, and other needed tools ofthe combat forces. However, thewar work there is done now and theswitchboard cable work can take its ganizing a war manufacturing plantsuch as Hawthorne was. Nothing has been said, however,of the details of the job—the ques-tions which must be answered, like: —how many machines? —what type? —how many people? —number and type of benches? —will a given shop operate oneshift, two, or three? i68 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN —what about flow of materialsand finished parts? Conveyors?Aisle space required? When dozens of questions likethese are answered, its time to makea model floor plan of each newlocation. Templates representing theactual floor space required by each build and install everything to all of this add the prob-lems of raw material supply and ofpersonnel training (at Hawthornetheyre doing the unprecedentedthing of operating training facili-ties in three shifts, around the clock),and you gain a sketchy idea of the. Eight weather-proofed textile-wound wires are being painted with quick dryinglacquer, passed through a drying duct, and taken up on the reels in the foreground machine and bench are cut and fittedinto a miniature plan. After thiscomes the write-up and the jobdescription, so everybody will knowwhere to put what, how to lay outthe power circuits of various volt-ages, the water, the lighting; buildcranes, tools, conveyors. Then itsthe millwrights turn to go in and complexity of the Hawthorne change-over program. Yet these are merely preparationsfor production. Manufacture startsfrom scratch. Theres nothing in thehopper in the way of piece parts withwhich to make, in turn, the sub-as-semblies and the final assemblies oftelephones, for instance. The piece 1945 Western Electric Tackles the Peace-time Emergency 169 parts must be manufactured first; andyou cant make piece parts until theraw materials are converted intowire, strips of metal, rods, andshapes of many
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