PLAN No. 1076. ASSEMBLING
After all of the components of an electrical machine have been produced in the different departments of the factory, they are sent to an assembling department for arrangement into the finished product. The coils are usually in place in and connected on each separate component. But the different members must be bolted or otherwise fastened together as required. The rotating members—armatures or rotors—must be mounted in the bearings, and such electrical junctions made between them as may be necessary. Then the machine is made ready for operation and test.
Where the device is small and simple the work of assembling is correspondingly uncomplicated. It then involves little physical effort and may be done by young women. But where motors or generators, transformers, or similar equipment of capacities of from 5 horsepower up are to be handled, men are required for the work. The assembling department affords a good starting place in the factory for a man who has had some electrical experience. While much of the work requires no theoretical training, a man who already has, or who acquires through study, a knowledge of the theoretical elements involved, will be able to progress accordingly.