500 Quick Ways to Profits (Reprinted from Factory Management and Maintenance Magazine)

From Introduction: "Five hundred quick ways to profits. A name that is different for an issue that is different. Different, not in its fundamental objective, but in its approach. Industry is always searching for ways to cut costs, because it knows that the cost-cutting way is the best way to profits. And it searches for big ways to cut costs. Which is all to the good. The search for big ways must go on - will go on. But in looking for the big ways, may not industry be overlooking the thousand-and-one little ways? While going on with the big, suppose it took a lot of little ways also. Might not the total effect of the little ways make as big a dent in production costs as a single spectacular effort?....It is to stimulate this mass attack on costs that Factory presents these 500 Quick Ways to Profits. They are cost-cutting ideas that have helped some plants to produce profits. They can help other plants - sometimes just as they are, sometimes changed to meet different conditions. These 500 ideas have been supplied by Factory readers, by manufacturers, and by the editors....Fifty-three of the readers' ideas won cash prizes totaling $500 in the recent Factory Awards contest...." Hardcover, 3.5 x 7 inches, 524 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams.