Significance of westerns electrics

3. MANUFACTURING INNOVATIONS
• Invested heavily in improving processes and
equipment to manufacture their products
• In 1958, the company established the
Engineering Research Center (ERC)- solely
dedicated to the advancement of manufacturing
• More than 400 researchers and engineers worked
to bring new manufacturing technologies into the
company's production environment

4. MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS
1. Scientific Management
2. Hawthrone Experiments
3. Quality Assurance

10. QUALITY ASSURANCE
• Joseph M. Juran pioneered the use of statistical
analysis for quality assurance at the Hawthorne
Works.
• A way of preventing mistakes or defects in
manufactured products and avoiding problems
when delivering solutions or services to
customers
• "Fit for purpose" (the product should be suitable
for the intended purpose); and "right first time"
(mistakes should be eliminated)

11. CONCLUSION
 Western Electric came to an end in 1995
when AT&T changed the name of AT&T
Technologies to Lucent Technologies, in
preparation for its spinoff
As of 2013, the stylized Western Electric brand
name survives as the trademark of
the Western Electric Export Corporation, a
manufacturer of vacuum tubes now produced
in Huntsville, Alabama

12. PRESENTED BY,
SHREE VENKATESH
JENISHA
NIVETHA
ANNIE