Journal of the Engineers' Club of St. LouisThe Club, 1921 |
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Página 168 - CONCRETE AND REINFORCED CONCRETE. ORGANIZATION. The members of the special committees on concrete and reinforced concrete of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society for Testing Materials, the American Railway Engineering...
Página 137 - The 42,000,000 men and women gainfully employed probably lose on an average more than eight days each annually from illness disabilities, including non-industrial accidents — a total of 350,000,000 days. Of the 500,000 workers who die each year...
Página 168 - ENGINEERS AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS...
Página 230 - for the furtherance of research in science and engineering or for the advancement in any other manner of the profession of engineering and the good of mankind.
Página 127 - Over 50 per cent of the responsibility for these wastes can be placed at the door of management, and less than 25 per cent at the door of labor, while the amount chargeable to outside contacts is least of all.
Página 142 - The engineers who made the field assays unite in pointing out that this attitude is beginning to change. The change should be aggressively led ; not allowed to drift. Labor organizations have an opportunity to-day which may not soon occur again to draft for themselves a new bill of rights and responsibilities. Unions are now great organizations with such funds and personnel at their disposal as would have seemed fantastic even a quarter of a century ago, Their influence permeates the whole of American...
Página 143 - Labor should cooperate to prepare for and even demand the determination of and use of performance standards. This recommendation made by the engineer reporting on the printing industry applies to labor in many other industries as well: The unions rightly insist on reasonable hours and the best pay obtainable, but to discharge a responsibility in eliminating waste they should lend themselves to the greatest flexibility in the utilization and economy of the services of their members. It is to the worker's...
Página 139 - Planning and control should be adopted as fundamentals of good management. For the most part they have not as yet penetrated the mass of American industry. Managerial control, when properly planned, extends its influence into every activity of an industrial organization and plant, reaching materials, design, equipment, personnel, production, costs and sales policies and coordinating these factors to a common objective. While this statement applies more particularly to large plants, still the smaller...
Página 129 - A shoe factory having a capacity of 2400 pairs of shoes a day could turn out for a considerable period only 1900 pairs because of shortage of needed racks. Another factory had 50,000 pairs of shoes tied up in the fitting room instead of the normal 15,000 because of congestion of operations. In another case a factory producing 700 pairs of shoes a day had 36,000 pairs in its fitting room, or ten times the normal supply. An entire factory was held up for several days waiting for leather heels.
Página 199 - With advances in the science of refrigeration engineering, a more enlightened spirit on the part of distributors, and proper care on the part of the operators of cold storage houses, the cold storage industry, with the aid of constructive legislation, might be expected to solve some of the more pressing problems in the conservation of the country's food supply. If the traditional prejudice against cold-storage food stuffs were removed and the storage space of the country largely increased, much more...