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Dec. 12, 1973 - These trays of uranium pellets, destined for the fuel rods of commercial nuclear power reactors, are just a few of the tens of thousands of uranium fuel containers moving through General Electric's Nuclear Fuel Department plant in Wilmington, N.C. at any given time. A revolutionary new computerized manufacturing system - designed by computer experts at the GE Research and Development Center in Schenectady, N.Y. and manufacturing personnel at the Wilmington factory - simultaneously tracks and records the manufacturing history of each of the containers as it progresses through the factory. The new system has greatly aided quality assurance, and has improved productivity through faster and more efficient plant operation. By pressing a button on one of the system's many terminals, the technician tells it that he is going to load a batch of pallets into a fuel rod

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