The Seaforth News, 1958-11-27, Page 7AUTOMATION KEY TO PROFITS
By DOUGLAS LA.RSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
DETROIT — (NEA.) — Auto-
mation progress in this car town
11as become a bigger secret than
the styling of next year's models,
The public eventually sees the
view models, But if the auto
fakers have their way the full
details of how machines are re-
placing workers— automation—
'tvill never be told.
Automation was a central
Issue in the recent labor nego-
tiations. It has been responsible
for 700 wildcat strikes thrown
et Chrysler during the past
couple of years. It is also credit-
ed with having saved Chrysler
from near financial disaster this
past year.
Automation is still turning ui
hidden sources of profits in the
industry. And the experts claim
that it holds the hope of some
day ending the inflationary
Spiral in the industry.
New auto labor contracts call
for about a seven -cents -per -hour
increase each year to compen-
sate workers for the expected
Increase in productivity result-
ing from automation. But the in-
dustry is confident of accom-
plishing far more than this m
cars an effort was made to im-
prove quality control through
automation techniques. Faulty
engines and parts were automate
tically jerked off the lines.
This effort has had great suc-
cess .Tho number of "bugs" has
been drastically reduced and the
real "lemon" virtually eliminat-
ed, GM used automation for this
purpose, too, especially on Olds-
mobile.
Automation of production lines
turning out car transmissions is
one of the big developments this
Year. Ford has a new line turn-
ing out front-end suspension
systems that drastically reduces
manpower,
The assembly operation has
stubbornly resisted the encroach-
ment of man -replacing machines.
But the hint of radical new ap-
proaches to auto building might
be the answer to solving this
problem, experts are predicting.
One of the big problems of
automation 'is the way it has
tended to freeze product design,
production experts admit. Auto-
mation machinery is expensive,
complex and difficult to install.
This tends to dictate fewer
changes in models each. year.
Car makers have tried to over-
come this difficulty with flashy
THIS 52 -FOOT LONG machine in Ford's Lima, Ohio, plant
automatically drills the all system in a crankshaft in one con-
tinuous operation,
the way of more efficient out-
put..
A recent business magazine
purvey reports that industry gen-
erally increased productivity
three per cent in one recent
quarter. Auto industry produc-
tivity usually leads the rest of
industry. But if this figure would
mean that productivity is in-
creasing about four times as fast
as provided for in the new con-
tracts.
Chrysler trailed Ford and
General Motors in automation.
Thus, in 1956 Chrysler ended
with a profit of about $19 per
vehicle, That year Ford and
GM made between $82 and $250
profit on each vehicle.
In 1957 Chrysler eliminated
about 20,000 jobs out of 140,000
and wound up with a profit of
about $82 per vehicle. This in-
spired the rash of wildcat
strikes. But industry experts say
that automation saved Chrysler
from the brink of disaster in this
bad year of 1958.
A Forel engineer coined the
word "automation" and the firm
led in this development with
engine production lines that
eliminated all but a handful of
workers. This past year Ford
found a way to save many mil-
lions of dollars with a unique
adaptation of automation tech-
niques. This softened the reces-
sion blow for Ford, too.
In 1957 Ford discovered that
the cost of assuming 100 per cent
of all warranty work was run-
ning into the tens of millions
of dollars, So when production
lines were set up for the '58
but superficial changes in body
style, But it accounts for the
fact that there have been rela-
tively few baste engineering
changes on cars during the past
several years.
Just Like They Do
On Television
A 32 -year-old housewife, Mrs.
Shirley Orlofsky, was improving
last week in a Denver hospital,
but 10 -year-old Kerry (Corky)
Casey, was in trouble again.
Kerry, already awaiting a pro-
bation hearing as a juvenile
delinquent, shot Mrs. Orlofsky
in the shoulder when she ignor-
ed his command: "Drop your
purse of I'll shoot you." Later.
Kerry said he was "doing it like
they do on the TV."
What was little Kerry's TV
diet? He said he usually watch-
ed TV from 3.30 p.m., when he
got home from fourth grade,
right on through till bedtime, at
9.
1-Iow Can 1?
By Anne Ashley
Q. Mow can I intensify the
taste of coffee?
A. Try placing a pinch of salt
in it while it is boiling,
Q. How can I erase finger
marks from a light felt hat?
A. Use a piece of very fine
sandpaper, and rub lightly with
the nap of the felt until the
mark disappears.
MONTREAL TRAGEDY—Firemen are pouring water on one of a
row of apartment buildings which were swept by explosions
and a fire in Montreal. One body had been recovered but 14
people were reported missing in the three damaged buildings.
Arson Experts
On The Job
Arson was suspected when a
$100,000 chemical warehouse
burnt to the ground—but after
fire -probing detectives had an-
alysed the ash, it was found that
the fire was due to a drop of
perspiration!
If a hard-working factory
hand had stopped to mop his
brow, the fire would never have
started. Instead, his perspiration
splashed on to sodium dust, de-
veloped
eveloped heat through a chain of
chemical reactions and finally
set fire to a bottle of methylated,
ether.
In another case, an electric
fire outside a bathroom was
thought to have started a coun-
try mansion fire. But the experts
discovered that the fire had not
only not been switched on, but
the bathoom door had been
burned from the inside.
Compression of charred fibres
of the wood showed that rays of
the sun, focused through the
bathroom's plastic door -handle,
had scorched and then set light
to a bathrobe which, in turn,
burned down the door.
Scientific detection of this high
order = sifting and micro -photo-
graphing every ash Or cinder to
discover the causes of fire -has
made' arson very difficult to get
away with. •
It is literally too hot to handle
for would-be criminals — and
statistics show a 98 per cent drop
in arson in twenty years. This
is largely due to the efforts of
one man, the greatest arson -
tracker of them all, Dr. James
Firth, chief of the British Horne
Office forensic laboratory at
Preston. He recently retired but
has left behind him a crack
firebug - fighting organization,
built up during his twenty years
of investigation into nearly every
big blaze.
He was in charge of investi-
gations into the fire that de-
stroyed the Empress of Canada
at Liverpool in January, 1953,
and by painstaking deductions
tracked down the cause to a
carelessly discarded cigarette
end.
In another of his cases, a pad-
locked warehouse was burned
down over a week -end. Dr Firth
knew what to look for when he
traced the origin of the fire to
near the telephone. Hoping to
fool an insurance company, an
arsonist had dialled the ware-
house number, knowing the
ringing bell hammer would shat-
ter a thin glass bulb of sulphuric
acid, which dripped on to a mix-
ture of chlorate of potash and
sugar, causing it to burst into
flames.
Another fire -raiser learned that
his dentures were made of an
inflammable plastic and thought
DON'T RUB - Name of that wicked -looking ga dget under the plane's wing is the "Genie
MB -1," and rubbing it the wrong way would be disastrous. It's the first of the air-to-air 'mis-
siles with an atomic capability . Translation: it could carry an atomic warhead.
that he could cook up a perfect.
alibi. When his country house,
with its valuable contents, was
burned to the ground, the insur-
ance company scented fraud—
but how could they prove it?
The householder apologetically
explained that, after smoking in
bed, he had stubbed out his
cigarettes on the dentures in mis-
take for an ash -tray. The teeth
had practically exploded in flame,
the sheets caught fire and then
the curtains went Lip.
"All I could think of," he said,
"was saving myself." And even
his pyjamas were half -burned
to prove his story. Hardened
chain -smokers, however, seldom
smoke after removing their teeth.
This single suspicious circum-
stance caused further investiga-
tion, and a spectroscopic analysis
of the charred fragments of
sheets showed a metallic sub-
stance found only in a certain
brand of paraffin.
A pyromaniac developed a
grudge against a chain of pro-
vineial shops and felt sure that
his insensate pattern of ven-
geance could never be traced.
Entering one of the company's
shops by a back way after dark,
he dug away the wall plaster in
the stock -room and started his
fire against the exposed laths,
The police traced every dis-
missed employee who might be
nursing a grudge and discovered
a commercial traveller whose
movements from town to town
coincided strangely with the fires
Before he could start another
shop blaze, the suspect was ar-
rested; and minute traces of
plaster were found in his trous-
er turn -ups. This matched plas-
ter the arson detectives had gath-
ered from a shop burned in a
town the traveller had visited
the previous week.
Then there's the crook in Dart-
moor today who bitterly regrets
the impulse that led him to in-
vest in a stock of stolen cellu-
loid combs. After insuring the
stock, he arranged a fire in the
dingy East End of London ware-
house in which they were stored.
He told the insurance assessors
that the combs had never been
emptied out of the three-ply
packing crates. But some of the
combs had "flashed" into flames
en the floorboards, leaving the
characteristic char of wood • • -
and fragments from a further
line of white ash examined by a
spectrographist were shown to
be lamp -wick soaked in gasoline.
Heat intensities leave an un-
mistakable record on the mater-
ial consumed, and the close -set
alligator markings on the wood.
boarding indicated not only the
heat intensity of _celluloid but
also the higher heat intensity
of gasoline.
Faced with this evidence. the
investigators brought the fire
trail closer. In a chink of brick-
work in the burned warehouse
was found a gaso•1ine residue,
identical in molecular fern! and
metal content with the gasoline
in the firebug's car.
It is by such highly -scientific
methods as these that convictions
are secured in nearly all cases of
arson today. No wonder the
crooks find it too hot to handle.
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