Shop Management

120 SHOP MANAGEMENT all fines which are imposed upon them in disciplining them, and for damage to company’s property or work spoiled. (p) Rush Order Department. Hurrying through parts which have been spoiled or have developed defects, and also special repair orders for customers, should receive the attention of one man. (q) Improvement of System or Plant. One man should be especially charged with the work of improvement in the system and in the run- ning of the plant. The type of organization described in the foregoing paragraphs has such an appearance of complication and there are so many new positions outlined in the planning room which do not exist even in a well man- aged establishment of the old school, that it seems desirable to again call attention to the fact that, with the exception of the study of unit times and one or two minor functions, each item of work which is per- formed in the planning room with the superficial appearance of great complication must also be per- formed by the workmen in the shop under the old type of management, with its single cheap foreman and the appearance of great simplicity. In the first case, however, the work is done by an especially trained body of men who work together like a smoothly running machine, and in the second by a much larger number of men very poorly trained and ill-fitted for this work, and each of whom while doing