" The
workmen in charge of the belts now received directions as to
their charge from a general foreman, who received directions
from an efficiency engineer. This engineer had derived his
general information on the subject from a man who had made a
special study of belts for nine years. He laid down a few
general rules, requiring accurate records of breakdown, repair,
and installation, full authority and responsibility for the
special worker on belts, a better grade of work in installation
and better operation of the belts. Under this method "the
number of breakdowns declined from 12 each working-day to an
average of 2 a day, not one of them serious ...and due to
original defective installation, which it was impossible to
remedy without unjustifiable expense.... The cost of
maintaining belts fell from $1000 a month to $300 a month."
This elimination of waste of human power, and in connection with it the
elimination of waste of equipment and of machine power, have, then, in
the course of the last thirty years, been studied and applied in this
country in the way roughly outlined by Mr. Taylor, Mr. Gilbreth, Mr.
Gantt, Mr. Sanford Thompson, Mr.
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