Automating the Wind Cycle (Electric Motors)

4.9.3
It became necessary to standardize the armature production industry with mechanisms in mind, rather than involving the human element. Only then could automatic machines gain acceptance.
As customers became interested in automatic equipment, their specific armature patterns were analyzed, and new patterns substuted, permitting mechanization. The writer recalls spending long tedious hours in conference with engineering groups in each customer instance, illustrating the equivalency of our recommendations to their favorite customary method. Eventually, one by one, they became sufficiently convinced to ask for test samples for actual proof.
During the past quarter century the appropriateness of the automatic equivalent winding patterns, along with the economic pressure for automation, has brought an end to the era of hand-wound armatures. Today’s designers following industry-standard armature practices do not even realize that such practices were developed by Globe in order that armature production could be automated.