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Identifier: belltelephonemag22amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ple: thattelephone service, being practicallyinstantaneous, is essentially a devicefor saving time. It is this time-sav-ing, multiplied by all the opportuni-ties for it in the customers opera-tions, which represents the efficiencygained and reflects itself in produc-tion volume. Take any plant, findsome way of saving the time of itsmen and machines, and obviously youenable them to produce faster and,therefore, more. There is some danger in making itlook as simple as this because it 1943 Telephone Service for War Industries 95 prompts the questions: Cant warproduction people see this for them-selves? Is servicing assistance reallynecessary? The principle seems soself-evident. The answer Is that of course In-dustrial people recognize that more variations In the completed car—body style, wheels, color, upholstery,accessories—were accurately handledon the same high-volume assemblyline. But the engineering of a pro-cedure such as this takes study (andconsequently time) which production
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Here is one of several centralized files in an airplane plant, made feasible by tele-phone communication, which facilitate access to manufacturing records while alsopermitting a more efficient use of telephone lines. The arrangement resulted froma study by servicing representatives and the plants production staff effective communication In theiroperations will Improve productionefficiency. Some of them, in fact,have an extraordinary understandingof this, as witness the use of our serv-ices In former days for coordinatingassembly In automobile plants, where-by more than a thousand possible people are now In no position to un-dertake. Nor are they, by and large,suflEcIently experienced In telephonyto conduct such study without tech-nical assistance. Could even the tech-nically trained production man be ex-pected to know, for Instance, thatbadly needed telephone service In the 96 Bell Telephone Magazine TUNE explosive atmosphere of a paint-spraying room can be provided bymeans of an inst

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