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07-16-2015, 09:51 PM | #1 |
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Ever wonder were your brake springs come from??
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07-16-2015, 11:18 PM | #2 |
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Re: Ever wonder were your brake springs come from??
Back in the 80's I took a tour of the Kodak factory in Rochester, NY. Watching the machine make and cut those tiny camera springs was interesting. I saw a lot of neat automation that day.
BTW, I was the only one on tour that day, so I had a personal tour. It seems Kodak was on a downward spiral even before the digital cameras came out. |
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07-16-2015, 11:27 PM | #3 |
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I remember being at the MARC National in Rochester, NY at the same time Kodak lost the Walmart contract for film to FUJI. Rochester also got kicked again with Xerox taking a hit in declining sales. Also as a FYI, I believe that Kodak invented the digital camera technology but Management didn't move forward with it.
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07-17-2015, 10:12 AM | #4 |
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Kodak and it's many tries at re-organization is a sad story. I was an IBM crossover in 88 and never saw so much waste. Sad.
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07-17-2015, 11:43 AM | #5 |
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Re: Ever wonder were your brake springs come from??
Nice video. It is a tribute to the creative minds that early on recognized a better way to do things. Someone had a concept and either they or a talented tool designer devised a method to mass produce a component, and following those plans machinists built the machine. As a retired machinist I think of the myriad parts in our old cars and the people who designed, engineered and built the tooling to provide them. In the days BC, Before Computer, there were pencils, paper and slide rules, drafting tables before plotters and levers and dials on machines before computer numerical control. Certainly today we still have those with mechanical aptitude but it seems there are less and less of them as time marches on.
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