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traditions of plant secrecy were slow to change, inhibiting
exchange of experience in product design.
176.
Requests from Productivity Centers for such product
evaluation by U.S. firms were channeled through trade groups,
management associations, and marketing organizations. Although the
number of such requests was not great overall, these requests found
a sympathetic response in many American companies who displayed an
admirable openness and sense of social responsibility. Productive
assistance was rendered, again without the need for high cost
traditional consulting firms who would, under the best
circumstances, have functioned as intermediaries.
177.
As of December 1951, soon after this program was begun,
58 product analyses had been completed or were in process. 47
I. Loan for Plant Analysis of American Products, Machinery and
Component Parts
178.
This product display Technical Assistance service was
designed to fulfill an existing need for enterprises and industries
to see, disassemble, and study new products of interest to them.
It functioned on a non-commercial basis, and provided assistance
not met through trade fairs and the limited marketing channels
⁴⁷ECA, Status of Technical Assistance Projects, Washington,
D.C., December, 1951.
101
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