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History of Manufacturing
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Model T Automobile was created by Henry Ford -
Henry Ford created the first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles -
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The 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote -
Chester Rice and Edward Kellogg, invented the modern loudspeaker system -
Toyota develops the "Just-In-Time" manufacturing and the "autonomation". -
US declares war on Japan -
Japan Surrenders -
ISO is founded to develop international standards for business and technology -
Found on almost all items used today, the barcode was originally used to identify railroad cars and was invented by Joseph Woodland. -
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Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a hierarchy of metric developed to Seiichi Nakajima in the 1960s to evaluate how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized. -
General Electric Company scientist, Nick Holonyack, invented the first visible light LED. -
MLK Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech before a crowd of 200,000. -
OSHa standards around safety and health in the American workplace, and primarily in the American manufacturing industry are developed and put in place. -
ABB robotics and KUKA robotics introduce industrial robots to the European market and they are quickly adopted in the US. -
Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) were created by the department of commerce in 1976 and later moved to the new Department of Energy in 1978 -
Inaugurated as the 39th president. -
Character, date and code verification performed by cameras and machine vision systems for manufacturing begin development. -
3D printing became more normalized when 3D systems developed the stereolithographic apparatus (SLA) -
Terrorist attack World Trade Centers in New York -
The Enterprise Integration Act authorized the sprawling National Institute of Standards and Technology to collaborate with major manufacturing industries in developing and implementing standards for enterprise integration in the 21st century. -
Obama is elected as the first African American President of the United States -
Manufacturing USA consists of multiple linked Manufacturing Innovation Institutes.