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AN OBSOLETE WOODWARD COMPLETE LOCOMOTIVE CONTROL.

FE.jpg An obsolete mechanical beer can production counter replaced by a digital counter.ThumbnailsAn odd-ball Woodward engineering job for a Smith-Putnam Wind Turbine application.An obsolete mechanical beer can production counter replaced by a digital counter.ThumbnailsAn odd-ball Woodward engineering job for a Smith-Putnam Wind Turbine application.An obsolete mechanical beer can production counter replaced by a digital counter.ThumbnailsAn odd-ball Woodward engineering job for a Smith-Putnam Wind Turbine application.An obsolete mechanical beer can production counter replaced by a digital counter.ThumbnailsAn odd-ball Woodward engineering job for a Smith-Putnam Wind Turbine application.

In the 1980's Woodward tried to compete with other companies off the shelf control system technology and lost market share with their type of locomotive engine control. Why? Way too expensive and their software was too slow and not high tech. History in the making!

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