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...times because of the problems involved with developing new weapons and starting up production facilities. Executives at General Electric's aircraft engine division in Lynn, Mass., do not expect to receive big payoffs from the Reagan spending before 1984 or 1985. The Army, for example, wants more of GE's T-700 engines for its Black Hawk helicopters, but it will be at least a year before any additional machines can be produced. Said one company executive: "You know it's not like making more toasters or light bulbs...
...your story on RCA [Feb. 9], you refer to "the awkward ousting of the son of the company's founder." The implication is that David Sarnoff was the founder of the Radio Corporation of America. RCA was started in 1919 by General Electric Co. GE was soon joined in this venture by Westinghouse Electric Corp. and A T& T. Owen D. Young, an officer of GE, was named the first chairman of the board of RCA, and E.J. Nally was the first president...
...including one cluster that had reduced the work force in a vacuum-cleaner plant from several hundred men to eight. "Unless we start doing something to increase U.S. productivity, the United States will be out of business as a country," says Mirabal, who returned from Japan to find that GE was using only ten robots; today it has 111. The auto industry now buys about 40% of industrial robots, both in the U.S. and worldwide, but electrical firms have also become major users...
There are some experts, though, who believe that sight is much less important than touch, either undersea or on the assembly line. "I can't afford to let the robot arm wait while the camera does all the things it needs to do," says GE's Mirabal, who says he has looked at 20 vision systems and found none that is economical. "Touch is going to be very important, because all the robot needs is to know that something is happening or not happening. Just one piece of information that can be analyzed quickly." While most...
While the industry was under siege, Reagan's own acting career was faltering. In 1954 he landed a job as host of the General Electric Theater on TV and traveling lecturer at GE plants. Inveighing against Government interference in the movie industry, he began collecting evidence of federal intervention in other industries, reading conservative literature and finding examples of the damage done by Washington. His GE tours put him in touch with more traditional, more conservative businessmen outside the film industry, and he was impressed. The point of this personal history is that Reagan's political principles, while...