Austauschbau

Machine-translated from the German article

Interchangeable manufacture is a concept of industrial production whereby any number of parts "A", made at different times and in different places, must fit together with any number of equally made parts "B" without rework. This concept was first applied by Honoré Blanc around 1750. In the USA, Eli Whitney attempted it around 1800 in the production of muskets, though this initially did not succeed.