This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...all the finished prod If the bricks in the upper picture had been tested before they were built into the wall of an expensive oven, they would never have been used. The first firing destroyed them. In the lower picture, if the scrap had been segregated according to varieties instead of being mixed with dirt and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...all the finished prod If the bricks in the upper picture had been tested before they were built into the wall of an expensive oven, they would never have been used. The first firing destroyed them. In the lower picture, if the scrap had been segregated according to varieties instead of being mixed with dirt and shavings, it could easily have been sold. uct is not determined, that of selected samples can be ascertained--which, if the process is an exact one, will represent with sufficient accuracy the finished weight. If further analysis is desirable, departmental graphs can be prepared. Throughout, it must be kept firmly in mind that scrap brings less per pound than castings cost, and that every ounce of metal removed unnecessarily means money wasted for labor. Graphs of this sort also show very quickly from which foundries it is the most economical to purchase, since the more perfect the casting the less extra metal will have to be allowed in order to insure the desired result. The same sort of charts can be used, a little differently, to detect the wastage in skins or hides used in leather-working. The same principle is applicable in the tobacco business--in fact, in any work in which raw materials are purchased and fabricated. As in the case of the castings, fluctuation in the curves may lead the executive to investigate the purchasing department by indicating that unsuitable material is being bought, or it may lead him to examine the operating departments in a search for spoiled material. In shoe-manufacturing concerns, where employees are paid to cut shoes rather than to save leather, in spite of the fact that the cost of the material represents from eighty to ninety per cent of the cost of the finished product, material wastes cannot be given too clos...
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