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During that time he held posts at Polaroid Corporation, where he designed cameras and high-speed automated machinery, Jet Spray Cooler Inc.

As head of the Design Group in the Mechanical Engineering Department at WPI, Norton teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on design, kinematics, vibrations, and dynamics of machinery, advises undergraduate design projects as head of the Gillette Project Center, supervises graduate research, and is active as a consultant to industry on a wide range of engineering projects, which have included disposable medical products and high-speed production machinery.

His career accomplishments have earned Norton numerous awards, including, in , the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award from the ASEE American Society for Engineering Education Mechanics Division, for distinguished and outstanding contributions to engineering mechanics education, and, in , the ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers Machine Design Award, which recognized his eminent achievement and distinguished service in the machine design field as a teacher, author, and designer.

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We don't recognize your username or password. Were it not for these processes these same cars would cost at least five thousand dollars, if indeed they could be made at all. In Norton estimated that 95 percent of an automobile's moving parts required grinding. At that time, the industry bought about 55 percent of Norton Grinding Company's output and had more than 68, grinding machines.

In fact, the automotive industry had became Norton's biggest customer. Automobiles, though, were not the only factor in Norton's growth. Norton, like many other companies, received a tremendous boost from World War I. Tanks and airplanes were among the vehicles whose parts required grinding.

Another factor in Norton's growth was the increase in the size of the machine tool industry to cope with industrial demand. Machine tools had always been a significant user of abrasives. In the s, however, Norton failed to maintain its role as an innovator in grinding machines. Its piece-by-piece construction of grinders was at odds with the needs of industry.

Some products went 28 or more years without significant improvements. It also gave up leadership and business to companies that developed more efficient "centerless" external grinders. In part, this stagnation was due to management's primarily Jeppson and Higgins, the owner-operators loyalty to their original product, abrasives. Charles Norton, after all, had been an outsider. And Charles Norton himself opposed the new machines, favoring his own.

In the early s, in an attempt to correct the situation, the company reorganized and redesigned its product line, although resources were withheld from the machine division and put into the construction of abrasives plants. This company, Norton's first acquisition, added coated abrasives and sandpaper to Norton's line. In fact, these products became the most profitable for Norton well into the s, while the company's grinders and bonded abrasives languished. However, the two companies rarely cooperated or pooled their talents and know-how.

Behr-Manning became a leader in the development of belt sanders in the s, although its main competitor, 3M Company, consistently led it in sales. By the late s, Behr-Manning monthly profits actually outstripped those of the parent company.

Behr-Manning was eventually absorbed into Norton. Overseas expansion, begun in by Charles Allen, grew slowly and for a long time was mainly concerned with sales. Norton's first foreign plant, the German Deutsche Norton Gesellschaft, was built in Its production was disrupted by World War I, and after the war Norton was hesitant to upgrade it.

Norton did build a plant outside Paris, and established facilities in Canada and Japan in the s. In general, Norton considered these operations peripheral, and in any case, in order to maintain secrecy, all bonds and grains were made and shipped from Worcester.

In the ten largest abrasives manufacturers formed Durex Abrasives Corporation, whose purpose it was to market American abrasives overseas. Over the years, this expanded Norton's market to a greater degree than it could have accomplished on its own, at least during the initial period. In the s, s, and s, the company built abrasives and other plants throughout the world.

By the s, it had about 90 such facilities. In Norton was still a family company; the third generation of Jeppsons and Higginses still ran it.

However, the need to decentralize authority and bring on competent outsiders to manage the company had been evident since the s and before. Several steps were undertaken. First, the company went public in This step enabled the company to, among other things, create a bonus plan that would attract professional managers. Having some other reference apart from his own text would be nice. Sep 1st, Best professor I've had at WPI.

He is rather difficult and gives a lot of work, but still fair with his grading. He stimulates your interest like no other, and the book he uses which he wrote is the best textbook I've used. Mar 28th, Oct 18th, Awesome professor. Always available to answer questions. Lots of work but worth it in the end. Oct 19th, Attendance: Mandatory. While initially overwhelming amounts of course work are scheduled, they are designed in a fashion to optimize the student's potential with regards to succesfully accomplishing the subject material.

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