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I think this illustration refers to the 1973 footprint of the Ford Romeo Engine Plant in Romeo, Michigan. Ford had implemented a significant expansion of the faciliity about the time of this illustration.

In my opinion, this is a notoriously difficult thing to implement especially considering the state of computing and microprocessor development in 1973. I didn't see reliaible conveyors and barcode readers until the early 1980s.

Imagine you need to get out a soldering iron, or a wire wrap gun, and scratch your head over electrical schematics in order to make changes to the system. Nowadays, you change the software. Not a simple task in either case.

Agree? Disagree?

On my end, I do not show tags for this image. When the page draws, there is no place to enter tags.

Are you familiar with the saying, "the aircraft doesn't take off before the weight of the paperwork exceeds the weight of the aircraft?" For BART cars or engine nacelles there would likely be binders of paper logs where employees verified that every bolt had been tightened and every connector had been fully mated. You can look up what company made bolts that hold a wing on an aircraft or who tightened them. Nowadays it's probably all in a database.