Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

8o EFFICIENCY METHODS evolution of a tool-storing system must not lead us to forget that good management takes over the supervision of all tools, all appliances which are in use in the works. A demand cannot be made on any worker to do his or her best work if the implements supplied to them are not in good working order, even if the implements are only paste-brushes or scissors. Nor can one person’s work be fairly compared with another’s if the equipment is not uniform. This is of the utmost importance in all forms of piece-work rates. A great many small tools get quickly blunted and out of order, and it should be someone’s special business to inspect and repair them, even when it is found convenient to keep them in the working-room instead of a tool-room. The actual arrangement of a tool-room has been the subject of as much excellent planning as that of a store-room.1 Descriptions have been published, with illustrations, in American periodicals, of the tool-rooms at the Link Belt Co. in Philadelphia,2 3 * * and the Tabor Manufacturing Co.,8 both of which are managed on Taylorian methods. There are two separate departments in the room, one for grinding and repairs—the maintenance section—the other for storage. The first is, as a rule, under the charge of a thoroughly capable foreman, 1 tor instance, Mr, Gilbreth has a handy device of marking a set of tools and their receptacle with paint of the same colour. See Motion-Study.” 3 J. Ashford, Engineering Magazine, 1904. • R. T. Kent, Industrial Engineering, vol. ix.; reprinted in the Thompson Collection.