These small design changes were
often made streamline production; but their number, and the
number people making them, led more problems in
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manufacture. The tools used production
were designed and made Otto Weber "largely saw fit.VIII-36
on the production engineering the phonograph.
Weber and his staff carried out improvements machines, often
at the request dealer feedback. This was done informal,
haphazard way; there was proper set drawings kept and
each foreman made his own changes suit himself and usually
failed inform anybody else. For example, they redesigned
the horn the phonograph improve sound quality and give
the phonograph new look, working new design for horn and
attachment brackets 1907. These
were the men who actually made the changes design and
manufacturing processes. Weber and his
assistants, especially E. Aiken, played crucial role in
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developing new products and manufacturing existing ones. The job everyday
production engineering went, default, into the hands the
foremen the machine shops and Edison Phonograph Works.L. There was no
."
No records were kept this vital work.
The transformation all these design changes into new
blueprints, tools, and manufacturing processes was important
as the actual engineering the changes. took the
drawings and models produced the lab and integrated all
modifications and changes into the design production model
that would cheap and easy manufacture
