Excerpt from Production Milling: A Treatise Dealing With the Methods Employed in Progressive American Machine Shops for Obtaining Quantity Production on Various Types of Milling MachinesRecent years have witnessed the introduction of many im proved methods of performing milling operations. On produc tion work, where high rates of output are essential, this result has been accomplished in various ways, although mainly by a reduction of the nonproductive time of the men and machines in the milling department. In the preparation of this treatise, the author's object has been the same as that of a member of the planning department in a factory, who is called upon to devise methods of milling and to design fixtures that will enable repetition operations to be economically performed. Informa tion and illustrations relating to the latest developments in production milling practice have been gathered by personal studies of the methods used in many of the most progressive manufacturing plants, and an acknowledgement is made to the large number of factory executives who have cooperated in carrying on this work. All of the methods discussed have been successfully used under actual shop conditions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.