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  2. Interchangeable parts - Wikipedia

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    Interchangeable parts are parts that are ... and has become an important element of some modern manufacturing but is missing from other important industries. ...

  3. Spare part - Wikipedia

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    Spare parts are an important feature of logistics engineering and supply chain management, often comprising dedicated spare parts management systems. Spare parts are an outgrowth of the industrial development of interchangeable parts and mass production .

  4. American system of manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    A critical factor in making interchangeable metal parts was the invention of several machine tools, such as the slide rest lathe, screw cutting lathe, turret lathe, milling machine and metal planer. One of the most important and versatile of these machine tools was David Wilkinson's lathe , for which he received a $10,000 award from the ...

  5. Interchangeable parts - en.wikipedia.org

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    Ford would often use interchangeable parts between car models to save costs, but slowly decreased after it lost market share to Chevrolet. The concept of interchangeability was crucial to the introduction of the assembly line at the beginning of the 20th century, and has become an important element of some modern manufacturing but is missing from other important industries.

  6. Form, fit and function - Wikipedia

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    F3 originated in military logistics to describe interchangeable parts: if F3 for two components have the same set of characteristics, i.e. they have the same shape or form, same connections or fit, and perform the same function, they can be substituted one for another. [1]

  7. John H. Hall (gunsmith) - Wikipedia

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    Hall recognized individually fitted parts as the factor slowing rifle production and adapted his breech-loading design to the “uniformity principle,” widely known as interchangeable parts. Hall proposed the concept of interchangeable parts to the Army in June 1816 [ 1 ] and earned a contract for 1,000 of the "Model of 1819" Hall rifles from ...

  8. Eli Terry - Wikipedia

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    Terry occupies an important place in the beginnings of the development of interchangeable parts manufacturing. Terry is considered the first person in American history to actually accomplish interchangeable parts with no government funding. [ 1 ]

  9. Modularity - Wikipedia

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    Modular parts are implicitly interchangeable and/or recombinable in one or another of several senses". [36]: 3 Blair defines a modular system as "one that gives more importance to parts than to wholes. Parts are conceived as equivalent and hence, in one or more senses, interchangeable and/or cumulative and/or recombinable" (p. 125).