This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... It is evident that special knowledge and talent, and skilled knowledge and discretion, are necessary in standardizing the elements of stores, in designing the arrangement of the stores rooms, and in determining maximum and minimum limits; but after that the routine becomes mechanical, and the ordinary ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... It is evident that special knowledge and talent, and skilled knowledge and discretion, are necessary in standardizing the elements of stores, in designing the arrangement of the stores rooms, and in determining maximum and minimum limits; but after that the routine becomes mechanical, and the ordinary functions of operating the system are merely clerical. In other words, we have here the same idea that has already been alluded to in connection with mechanical manufacture--the skill of the exceptional genius is permanently built into the machine or system, and the routine of the repetitive movements of that machine or system can be supervised by the cheaper intelligence and the lower-priced labor of the machine tender, or clerk, without fear of any deterioration in the quality of the product. The actual movement of material--that is, shop transportation--is of course an expense account, and we met it when we were considering the distribution of expense; the discussion of the physical means for accomplishing such work belongs to the study of manufacturing-plant design and shop transportation rather than to this examination of the elements of management. The transportation of material, however, is so intimately associated with storeskeeping that it should be noted here that very important influences on economy may be exerted by the arrangement and the appliances adopted. In general, economy is favored by orderly progress of material in one direction through the works, the transportation lines of the various pieces or parts from the stores department, through the manufacturing operations, gradually drawing together in the order of assembly. This ideal, however, becomes more and more difficult to realize practically as our finished product...
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