Shop Management

206 INDEX Patterson, Mr., of the National Cash Register Co., 200. Pay department, 115. Piece Rate System, A, quoted, 37, 81; cited, 58; its main object overlooked, 58; quoted, 177, 183- 186. Piece work, feeling of antagonism under, 35; adoption of, at Beth- lehem Steel Co., 50, 53; task work applied to, 73. Planning department, 64; expense of, 65; necessity and economy of, 67; four functional bosses of, 102-104; where best placed, 109, 110; general management should belong to, 110; leading functions of, 112-120; objections sometimes made to its doing the thinking for the men, 146. Plant and system, maintenance of, 116-118; improvement of, 120. Post Office Delivery, 118. Premium Plan, 43. Producers, and non-producers, rela- tive numbers of, 121, 122; what is meant by, 122. Promoting of men, 142, 143. Purdue University, 5. Reorganization. See Management, change in. Repair bosses, duties of, 101, 102; improvement due to introduc- tion of, 108. Repetition in work, 28. Reports, 117, 126, 127. Rogers, Charles D., 73, 201. Rush order department, 120. Sales department, inquiries for new work received in, analysis of, 114. Science of Industrial Management, 9, 11. Selecting and training of men, 138- 143. Sewing-machine, 8. Shop disciplinarian, duties of, 103, 104, 119. Shop Management, great value of the monograph, 7, 9. Sinclair, George M., 180. Slide rules, 113, 180. Smart and Honest, 40. Smith, Oberlin, his mnemonic sys- tem of order numbers, 201. Soldiering, 30-34 funder the Towne- Halsey plan, 40; enforced by fel- low workmen, 32, 34, 67. Speed, of a first-class and an aver- age man, 175; need of a book on, 177. Speed bosses, duties of, 101; im- provement due to introduction of, 108. Speed element in Towne-Halsey and task system compared, 44, 45. Standard conditions, 64. Standardizing, desirability of, 123- 126. Standards, 116, 175. Stop watch, 155. Strikes, freedom from, under scien- tific management, 68; none in Midvale Steel Co., 183. Study of unit times. See Time study. Subdivision of job into unit opera- tions, 168-172. Symonds Rolling Machine Co., 83. System and plant, maintenance of, 116—118; improvement of, 120. Task idea, 144, 145. Task system compared with Towne- Halsey system, 42. Task work, 69, 85; with bonus, 70; applied to day work, 71—73; applied to piece work 73; com- pared with differential piece work, 76-80. Taylor-White process of treating tool steel, 124. Taylor, Dr. F. W., his valuable con- tribution to the art of industrial engineering, 5, 7; Shop Manage- ment, 7, 9; The Art of Cutting Metals, 8; A Piece Rate System, 58. The Art of Cutting Metals, 8. Thompson, Sanford E., 91; his study of unit times, 150; imple- ments developed by, 150-154. Thorne, Wm. H., his method of analyzing work upon new ma- chines, 201. Tickler, use of, 116-118. Time and cost clerk, duties of, 103. Time card, and workmen, 127, 128. Time study, 24, 30, 34, 45; basis of good management, 46, 58, 65;