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CONTINUING GAINS in space utilizaHon at our distribution centers and factories enable us to store twice as much material per square foot as was possible 17 years ago. Comparing one of our new distribution centers with a theoretical 1945 building, a construction cost sa\ ing of 82,000,000 was made possible through space consen ation. Methods and operating expenses have also been reduced and these sa\Tngs total o\ er 8185,000 annually.
REDUCED COSTS in telephone cable production result from both new metliods and materials. Dexeloped by ^^â– estem Electric for tlie manufacture of exchange cable, tliis machine combines stranding and cabMng operations wliich were fonnerh separate. The development of impro\-ed tj-pes of exchange cable using aluminum and jjoK ethylene for sheatliing has brought about product sa\in2s of SIO million a year.
AMPLAS ''apparatus mounted in plastic) is a revolutionar\ new wa>of mounting commimications components. Planning Engineer Bill Herzog exi^lains some of its details to Assembler Sheila DiVincenzo. De\ eloped last year at A^'.E.'s Merrimack Valley Works, the AMPLAS metliod saves valuable assembling time and does a better job b\" using a thermosetting plastic as tlie components' base. Present sa\ings to ^^'estem Electric amount to 8500,000 annuall> and \\ill increase as AMPL.-^S is applied to additional products.
SAVINGS OF $200,000 last year resulted from the mechanization of manufactming operations of tungsten filament s\^'itchboard lamps. Altliough onl\" 2c \\-as sa\ ed on each lamp, tlie annual production of 10,000,000 lamps made this new manufacturing impro\"ement a worthwhile money saver! Below, C. S. James, Product Engineer at our Kansas Citj' Works, checks adjustments on the automatic packaging mechanism.
EACH YEAR tlie Nassau Smelting and Refining Co., a \\'.E. subsidiary, reclamis approximately 200,000 tons of Bell System scrap and obsolete equipment worth some 835,000,000. Most is processed by Nassau itself to reclaim many tons of copper, lead and otlier nonferrous metals at a savings compared \\ ith tlie cost of metals obtained from ore.
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