History of Manufacturing EAST AURORA HIGH SCHOOL BY: MR. NABASNY

Why Manufacture?  Manufacturing accounts for 20% of the US gross domestic product  Employs 17% of the United States work force

History of Manufacturing  Prior to 19 th century  Artisans  Handmade products

Eli Whitney  Interchangeable Parts

Early 1900s  Henry Ford  Assembly Line!  No Safety Practices  1911, 200 fingers severed  Doubles the workforce minimum wage  1979, First death by robot! (Terminator)

Early 1900s  Kiichiro Toyoda  Lean Manufacturing  “Just in Time” Manufacturing  Five areas drive lean manufacturing/production:  Cost  Quality  Delivery  Safety  Morale

Mid 1900s  Jervis B. Webb Co. creates first electronically coordinated conveyor system

Manufacturing Today  Automatic Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS)  Automatic Library System  “Grabs Data File”  Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV)  Computer controlled systems use pallets to transport work  Rapid Prototyping  3D Printing  Selective Laser Sintering  Fused Deposition Modeling (Putting Plastic Down By Layers)

Manufacturing Today  Work Cell  Manufacturing resources arranged into a group  Work Envelope  Range of motion of a robot or machine  Degrees of freedom are individual movements