AS users and builders of automobiles, we are so accustomed to thinking in terms of interchangeable manufacturing that we take it for granted even in the case of the aeroplane. It is true that for purposes of service and maintenance in the field, those aircraft parts which arc subject to replacement arc made strictly interchangeable. Aeroplane production, however, cannot follow to the same extent the system of interchangeable fabrication and assembly that is used in the automobile industry.


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    Title :

    Interchangeability in Modern Production


    Subtitle :

    Methods Adopted in the Engineering, Tooling, Fabrication and Assembly Departments of an American Factory


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1940-01-01


    Size :

    3 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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    Hertel, Courtney J. | SAE Technical Papers | 1939


    Interchangeability

    Shenstone, B.S. / Lofthouse, T.S. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1955


    Aircraft interchangeability

    Schofield, A. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1941


    Connector interchangeability

    Berilla, T. | NTRS | 1972


    Ensuring interchangeability

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1947