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Webster Manufacturing Car Mover Bulletin
No full textThe Webster Car Mover Bulletin 60E was produced by Webster Manufacturing of Tiffin (Ohio) The bulletin shows and describes the car movers that were available for sale -- "cars" that are intended to be moved are train cars and pallet-type cars. The catalog is divided by vertical capstan car movers, drum type movers, special movers and accessories.
The company was founded by Towner K. Webster in Chicago in 1876. With a need to expand, Tiffin was chosen because of the railroad facilities. The company opened in Tiffin in 1907, and it is still in business today as Webster Industries located at 325 Hall Street, Tiffin (Ohio)
Webster Manufacturing Belt Conveyor Equipment Catalog
No full textThis revised catalog, catalog 60-B, for Webster Manufacturing was produced "for the convenience of the belt conveyor user and the designing engineer [as stated in the catalog]." The material covers data for the application of the belt conveyors and the list of equipment. It states that there are three essentials to a successful conveying installation: engineering, manufacturing and erection. A long list of industries for which Webster has supplied equipment in listed.
The company was founded by Towner K. Webster in Chicago in 1876. With a need to expand, Tiffin was chosen because of the railroad facilities. The company opened in Tiffin in 1907, and it is still in business today as Webster Industries located at 325 Hall Street, Tiffin (Ohio)
Webster Manufacturing Bucket Elevators Catalog
No full textThis catalog, no. be-55, was produced by Webster Manufacturing for customers' orders of bucket elevators. The catalog shows all of the bucket elevators available and all of the parts necessary for operation. The catalog covers a comparison of elevator types, how to select a bucket elevator, types of bucket elevators, buckets, bucket punching, belt splicing, back stops, wing pulleys, bearings, gravity takeups, platforms and chains/sprockets.
The company was founded by Towner K. Webster in Chicago in 1876. With a need to expand, Tiffin was chosen because of the railroad facilities. The company opened in Tiffin in 1907, and it is still in business today as Webster Industries located at 325 Hall Street, Tiffin (Ohio)
Webster Manufacturing 75th Anniversary Booklet 1951
No full textA booklet commemorating Webster Manufacturing's 75th anniversary in Tiffin (Ohio) The company was founded by Towner K. Webster in Chicago in 1876. With a need to expand, Tiffin was chosen because of the railroad facilities. The company opened in Tiffin in 1907, and it is still in business today as Webster Industries located at 325 Hall Street, Tiffin (Ohio)
Webster Manufacturing You are Always Welcome at Webster
No full textA brochure informing the public of contact information, including department personnel and visiting hours. It shows a map of sales offices and explains the products and facilities of Webster
Implementation of virtual manufacturing by a technology licensing company
No full textNoThe paper considers the implementation of a virtual manufacturing system as an alternative to outward technology licensing in a high technology industrial sector. Brief theoretical definition and description of the two strategy options is provided to give background and context. This is followed by empirical material from a longitudinal case study of a company that has developed a virtual manufacturing system in addition to its pre-existing outward technology licensing business stream. A summary account of the company history and development is followed by description of the virtual manufacturing proposal. Analysis of this identified a number of competencies that would be required in order to succeed. The final part of the paper describes the company's response to this analysis and discusses early implementation of the virtual system. It is shown that implementation of the proposal has represented a positive response to the business challenges facing the company
Jeffrey Bucket Elevator in Operation
No full textBucket elevator made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. The buckets were manufactured at the Ohio Malleable Iron Company, a Columbus-based subsidiary of Jeffrey. The building under construction in this photograph was the new headquarters of Jeffrey Manufacturing Company in Columbus. The contractor on this project was the Stone and Webster Company of Columbus
Developing Overall Equipment Effectiveness Metrics for Prototype Precision Manufacturing
Get PDFOverall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a powerful metric of manufacturing performance incorporating measures of the utilisation, yield and efficiency of a given process, machine or manufacturing line. When associated with the reasons for performance loss, OEE provides the means to compare and prioritise improvement efforts. This research assesses the current systems used in the high-volume production lines of Company-X, a precision manufacturer of computer components. This assessment led to the design of a singular methodology that functions in a high-volume production environment, in the rapid prototyping production, and the program qualification production divisions of Company-X. The methodology defined indicators (Utilisation, Efficiency and Yield), and factors that must be recorded on an individual piece of equipment within a manufacturing line to determine its OEE. These equipment-level records were captured utilising the equipment’s computer-controller, supplemented by minimal user input, to minimise the non-value added activities associated with data-entry. The methodology also determined the means to aggregate the records to prioritize improvement activities (Weighted OEE Pareto) and calculate the manufacturing lines overall performance (Overall Line Effectiveness)
Polymer multimode waveguide optical and electronic PCB manufacturing
No full textThe paper describes the research in the £1.3 million IeMRC Integrated Optical and Electronic Interconnect PCB Manufacturing (OPCB) Flagship Project in which 8 companies and 3 universities carry out collaborative research and which was formed and is technically led by the author. The consortium’s research is aimed at investigating a range of fabrication techniques, some established and some novel, for fabricating polymer multimode waveguides from several polymers, some formulations of which are being developed within the project. The challenge is to develop low cost waveguide manufacturing techniques compatible with commercial PCB manufacturing and to reduce their alignment cost. The project aims to take the first steps in making this hybrid optical waveguide and electrical copper track printed circuit board disruptive technology widely available by establishing and incorporating waveguide design rules into commercial PCB layout software and transferring the technology for fabricating such boards to a commercial PCB manufacturer. To focus the research the project is designing an optical waveguide backplane to tight realistic constraints, using commercial layout software with the new optical design rules, for a demonstrator into which 4 daughter cards are plugged, each carrying an aggregate of 80 Gb/s data so that each waveguide carries 10 Gb/s
The Importance and Perspectives for Development of Manufacturing in Latvia
No full textManufacturing is a sector of the real economy, which plays a crucial role for the development of a country. Over the recent 15 years Latvia has changed the structure of the added value to the gross domestic product (GDP), putting the main stake on the services sector and pushing the manufacturing industry into the background. Today the ratio/share? of the manufacturing industry in the economy of Latvia is considerably lower than the average level of EU member states. As the services sector is a very vulnerable to external shocks, the recovery of manufacturing could be the ring-buoy for Latvia to overcome the global economic slowdown.
The aim of the article is to define the main preconditions for successful functioning of the manufacturing industry, as well as to analyse the current situation in the key sectors of Latvian manufacturing, finding the main favourable and obstructive factors for its development.
In order to scrutinise and process the data on the Latvian industry the author has used analytical and graphical methods, such as benchmarking, factor determination, specification, meta-analysis, ethnographic/qualitative analysis and others, as well as applied economic mathematical and statistical methods (modulation of optimization, macroeconomics methods), quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse the main factors which determine effective performance of a sector. By means of the quantitative micro software “E-views” the author has generated an equation showing the correlation between the value added of the manufacturing industry to the total Latvian GDP and a range of independent (exogenous) factors. In the equation the exogenous factors are associated with numerically expressed coefficients, which show the importance of a certain factor for the economy of Latvia.
Based on the results of the mathematical study the author has made a conclusion that the most relevant precondition for the long-term operation of a manufacturing sector is the number of people employed in the sector (the index reflecting the quality of professional skills), followed by the level of investments, the price index in the country, labour costs, and export volume of the production.
The author has applied the algorithm expressed by the equation to 6 key sectors of manufacturing in Latvia, and made conclusions on the future perspectives and the existing hindrances of the particular sectors. According to the study, the chemical sector shows the biggest expectations, while wood processing and the sector of metal production cause the most significant worries, and there is a sharp necessity to take immediate actions to prevent sinking of these sectors. Based on the analysis of the statistical data, the author has also found confirmation of adequacy of the manufacturing equation in practice
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