AUTOMATION SPEEDS CAR PRODUCTION
LONDON. Automation is speeding production and helping to offset costs at a motorcar factory in Birmingham, which is said to be the most highly-mech-anised car plant in Europe. A transfer machine turns out 2000 cylinder blocks for car engines a Week. This is 500 more than were produced weekly by the 13 single machines it has replaced. Operating costs of the transfer machine are approximately 17 per cent, lower than the total of the single machines, and labour costs, some 80 per cent, lower. Only two operators are required, one to load and one to unload.
The progress of every component is traced and checked on a control panel, as it passes through the 13 different processes. Other transfer machines turn out gear boxes at the rate of 4000 a week. There are 10 operators. Standard machines require 37 men for the same work. Displaced operatives have been absorbed in the works, where increased production has created more jobs.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27861, 9 January 1956, Page 4
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