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President George Washington signed the first U.S Patent on JUl;y 31 1790 -
This impacts the manufacturing World -
Outlawed practices deemed monopolistic and thus harmful to consumers and the market economy. -
Invents the Assembly line -
Henry Ford invents the first moving assembly line. -
The act built on the Sherman Antitrust Act by now enabling the federal government to outlaw practices that it foresaw as potentially damaging to consumers and the competitive market -
In a time of racial tension, Wiggins believed in organizing African-Americans along with white. She was able to influence her local NTWU branch to vote to admit African-Americans to the union. -
In 1938, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which mandated standards like the 40-hour workweek, the minimum wage, and child labor restrictions. It remains the bedrock of American labor law today. -
The act established minimum wage, required overtime pay, and abolished child labor. -
When the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, America mobilized for war—and the charge was led by the country’s massive manufacturing industry. -
ISO id founded to develop international standards for business and technology -
The process was developed in order to improve the flow of production by identifying and eliminating waste. -
The emergence of computer-aided design (CAD) in the 1950s and 1960s allowed machine tools to make precise and consistent cuts not through the skill of talented tradespeople, but by direction received from computer software programs.
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IN 1985 the introduction of integrated circuits allowed a higher level of processing paying the groundwork for more industrial -
For American workers, 1970 represented the greatest leap forward in labor protections since the FLSA in 1938. -
Limits some manufacturing events -
Industrial Assessment Centers IAC were created by the Department Of Commerce in 1976. Helper increase the energy efficiency. -
IN 1977 President Jimmy cater signed the department of energy Organization act of 1977 -
ABB robotics and KUKA robotics introduce industrial robots to European market and they are quickly adopted in the US YOu can read more detailed timeline of the history of. Robotics here. -
IBM began marketing the first practical personal computer in 1981. The moment signaled the greatest transformation in front-office management in the history of manufacturing. -
For generations, traditional processes of casting, forging, tooling, and machining—the heart of manufacturing—were achieved by removing layers of raw materials, like steel, until the desired cut or shape was achieved. -
Robotics use has become more advanced and sophisticated in the 21 century -
At the dawn of the new millennium, the Enterprise Integration Act laid the groundwork for the era of smart manufacturing that drives the sector today. -
With the introduction of the first iPhone the era of mobility in manufacturing begins allowing for more efficient communication on plant flaps and laying the ground work -
Manufacturing USA consistes of multiple linked Manufacturing INnovation Institutes.