Increasing Production Decreasing Costs (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Increasing Production Decreasing Costs

After declaring and explaining the fundamental principles methods are offered for making a standard survey of each depart ment of a manufacturing plant. This investigation should bring a knowledge of what the plant is actually producing and what the products are actually costing. Following chapters take up the question of establishing standard hourly outputs for both machines and operators through the making of proper studies. Then follows methods of applying the standard hourly outputs without arousing the antagonism of the worker, but rather in a manner to secure his cooperation.

The important subject of stock routing and tracing is then dis cussed followed by the development of progressive machining and progressive assembling.

Then, in order, are taken up the advantages of a survey of possible productive capacity of the plant, the delicate question of wage systems and their effect upon labor, the matter of controlling stores to prevent overstocking of materials and supplies, the func tions of the purchasing department, the important matter of tool design, emphasizing that the tool-design department must work in conjunction with the production department, methods for tracing tools through the shop and the all important subject of costs.

The final discussion turns to the absorbing question of organiza tion with emphasis upon the system of committees which the author has developed and used successfully.

Throughout this entire presentation an earnest effort has been made to have this volume as practical as possible, in order that it will prove of major usefulness to American manufacturers.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.