1940-1950
1940- High speed glass cutting machines.
1943- Early standardization of rotary machine chassis.
1947- Swanson's base filling machines development with eventual rates up to 20,000/hour.
1948- Entry into other assembly machine applications, including packaging and wrapping.
1970-1980
1971- 2nd and 3rd generation machines and systems for automatic assembly of automotive shock absorbers and energy absorbing bumpers.
1973- New walking beam machine chassis. New combination rotary/linear machine.
1975- Further standardization of assembly machine tooling.
1977- Several Swanson chassis each pass 3/4 billion production cycles with continuous round-the-clock twenty-year operation.
1950-1960
1950- Development completion and first commercial offering of Swanson rotary indexing machine chassis.
1955- Commercial introduction of Swanson in-line machine chassis.
1956- The U.S. automotive industry's adoption of Swanson machine chassis.
1959- Ordnance fuze assembly machines.
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1960-1970
1961- Modular loading and unloading machine elements for retrofitting to semi-automatic multiple station assembly machines.
1962- Development of standard tooling: pick-up and placement units, probes, slides mechanisms, and common actuating means.
1964- Development of thin parts feeding, separating and assembly machines.
1966- Automatic testing system complex, computer recorded; fully mechanically synchronized.
1967- Development of color television tube processing machine lines.
1968- Development of a truly standard automatic assembly machine, the Swanson series Q, awarded the Electronica '68 (Munich, Germany) prize and the 1968 Iron and Steel Institute Design Award.
1980-1990
1982- Entirely new cam indexer line utilizing the Swanson uni-track cam design.
1984- High speed continuous motion, in-line configured machine development.
1987- New high speed in-line chassis. Multi-dimension universal fixture development.
1988- Ultra high speed assembly machine systems.