Modern Machine Shop Construction, Equipment and Management (Classic Reprint)

The aim and object of the author in publishing this book is to produce a work suitable for the practical and every-day use of the Architects who design, theM anufacturers who build, theE ngineers who plan and equip, theS uperintendents who organize and direct; and for the information of every Stockholder, Director, OflS cer, A ccountant, Clerk, Superintendent, Foreman, and Workman of theM odem Machine Shop and Manufacturing Plant of Industrial A merica. The plan of the work is to divide its subject-matter into three parts or sections: Part First being devoted to the Constrtu:tion of theM odem Machine Shop or Manufacturing Plant, describing and illustrating buildings of approved form and arrangement: Part Second to its Equipment with modem Tools, Machines, and A ppliances, and the division of the plant into the proper departments for administrative and mechanical purposes; and Part Third discussing the all-important question of Management showing the fallacy of some of the so-called systems of Management, Time and Cost Systems, and minutely describing and illustrating a plain, concise, accurate, and common-sense System of Management, and ofT ime and Cost Keeping, that may be easily and economically administered and yet give all the important information necessary for operating the business to financial success. The work is fully illustrated by over two hundred engravings made from designs and drawings prepared by the author especially for this purpose. A considerable portion of the subject-matter of these chapters was published in Machinery, The I ronT rade Review and The Foundry, and attracted such attention and favorable commendation from practical men engaged in manufacturing enterprises, that the author decided to publish it in permanent form.
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