A HISTORY OF EDISON'S WEST ORANGE LABORATORY 1887-1931

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The "American system" manufacture with interchangeable parts was easier said than done. Edison admitted later that "so called interchangeable parts have adjusted place.IV-19 acceptance business offices, yet not enough warrant the large-scale production that Edison planned 1887. 1889, Batchelor and J. Mass production West Orange turned into continual process adjustment manufacture. The laboratory staff were charged with production engineering. essential part organizing production was hiring and training the right personnel for the . During the sales period December, 991 oo phonographs were ordered and 753 were made. The laboratory served the conduit for information about production (and the product) and made the required changes in the design the product and the process manufacturing it. Full scale production machines did not begin until the spring 1889 and June only 1200 had been completed.E. The Works average daily output was probably less than 50— much less than the original production target 200 day! Edison had been highly optimistic his plans set up mass production phonographs West Orange." was naive even consider mass production when the prototype was being continually redesigned. English, the Works manager, labored improve production methods: changing operations, laying out the machines more logical sequence, and redesigning tools. August 1889 the Phonograph Works produced 708 machines, and received orders for only 217 phonographs