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18. In large areas of French industry, machinery and
equipment are excessively overage and unproductive.
19.
Machinery selected for installation does not
include as much automatic equipment, multi-operation tools and
larger capacity items (presses moulding equipment) as machinery in
common use in the U.S.
20. Special purpose equipment is not used to the maximum
extent to replace hand labor and improve quality of work done.
21. Machinery, including new equipment, does not operate
as rapidly as has been found possible in the U.S. and other
countries.
22. Production and maintenance is hampered by serious
shortages of replacement parts. Many of these are of very small
cost and are available only from the U.S.
23. The extensive use of overhead belt drives and the
shortage of electric motors for powering or modernizing powered
machinery is an unfavorable factor limiting the operational
characteristics of equipment.
24. There is a serious shortage of powered hand tools
for assembly and finishing operations. This type of equipment has
played an important role in reducing labor requirements in America.
25. The development and use of jigs and fixtures is not
as advanced as the U.S. Design of this equipment is not always
satisfactory, and there is insufficient investment in this
important category of machinery.
26. Mechanized materials handling equipment, such as
conveyors, powered fork and lift trucks, and small tractors, are
insufficiently used.
27. Automatic inspection and packaging equipment, which
contribute to high productivity, were seen infrequently.
28. Shortages of plant capacity in France for a number
of small but critical equipment items, such as motors, indicating
and control instruments, materials handling machinery, power hand
tools, special alloy materials, and a few others, seemed to be
inordinately retarding attempts to improve plant rationalization.
E. Economic Conditions Affecting Plants
29. Shortages of materials and the erratic delivery of
supplies in many of the establishments visited served in many ways
to curtail plant efficiency; it was difficult to plan for
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