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Manufacturing in the 1900s
History of Manufacturing -
Theodore Roosevelt elected for president
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Model T Automobile
Model T Automobile was created by Henry Ford -
Ford Installs First Moving Assembly Line
Henry Ford created the first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles -
US entering WWI
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19 Amendment is passed
The 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote -
Loud Speaker System is invented
Chester Rice and Edward Kellogg, invented the modern loudspeaker system -
Lean Manufacturing
Toyota develops the "Just-In-Time" manufacturing and the "autonomation". -
WWII Starts
US declares war on Japan -
WWII Ends
Japan Surrenders -
International Organization for Standardization Founded
ISO is founded to develop international standards for business and technology -
Invention of Barcode
Found on almost all items used today, the barcode was originally used to identify railroad cars and was invented by Joseph Woodland. -
Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President
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The Development and use of overall equipment effectiveness
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. -
Discovery of LED Lighting
General Electric Company scientist, Nick Holonyack, invented the first visible light LED. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech before a crowd of 200,000. -
The occupational safety and health act (OSHA) introduced
OSHa standards around safety and health in the American workplace, and primarily in the American manufacturing industry are developed and put in place. -
Industrial Robots Introduced
ABB robotics and KUKA robotics introduce industrial robots to the European market and they are quickly adopted in the US. -
IACs helps boost efficiency for small and medium manufacturers
Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) were created by the department of commerce in 1976 and later moved to the new Department of Energy in 1978 -
Jimmy Carter
Inaugurated as the 39th president. -
Smart Cameras are Developed
Character, date and code verification performed by cameras and machine vision systems for manufacturing begin development. -
3D printing comes of age
3D printing became more normalized when 3D systems developed the stereolithographic apparatus (SLA) -
9/11 Attacks
Terrorist attack World Trade Centers in New York -
Enterprise Integration Act
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. -
President Obama
Obama is elected as the first African American President of the United States -
NNMI (now known as manufacturing USA) was created
Manufacturing USA consists of multiple linked Manufacturing Innovation Institutes.