Automation for Electronics -- a 1956 Status Report

At the 1955 IRE National Convention, the author delivered a paper entitled ``Guided Missile Reliability and Electronic Production Techniques´´. A general description was given of several contemporary concepts of automation-for-electronics. The present paper is a sequel to the previous report. An attempt is made to view objectively the various improved concepts and their advancing techniques, and to evaluate them in terms of present trends for their use. Three needed basic improvements for automatic electronic assembly machines are outlined, and a prediction is made that the early incorporation of these improvements will rapidly advance the acceptance and application of automation-for-electronics.