Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

THE TOOL-ROOM 8l as he is responsible for important executive work. Parkhurst (Ferracute Co.) makes him one of the functional foremen. The stores-keeper does not need the same technical qualifications. Stress must again be laid, as in the last chapter, on the necessity of proper communication between the designing activity and the tool-room. A copy of the card-index which gives a full detailed list of tools should be in the drafting-office. It will be obvious that a designer should be completely aware of what is practicable at the time on the various machines. Sometimes the inspection of tools on their return from use is made a separate section, with an inspector who issues them, for grinding or for re-storage, after they have passed under his review. The number of men needed in a tool-room will vary greatly accord- ing to its scope ; there must always be one or more tool messengers to carry the tools to and fro. There are careful systems of checking the issue of tools to workmen, so as to make them responsible. A point that must not be forgotten in considering the importance of proper care and inspection of tools is that statistics of industrial accidents bring out the fact that a considerable percentage of them are due to defective tools: those that were out of order, or of the wrong size, or of unreliable quality. One writer1 states that 25 per cent, of American in- dustrial accidents in one year were due to defective hand-tools. 1 Cardullo, " Industrial Betterment,” Machinery* (American edition), Nov., 1915. G