St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
TO RE-ARRANCE SHOP
The Fairbanks Scale Works Con.
sidering Scientific Management
Plants are Busy.

With the idea of greater efficiency
in factory methods the E. and T.
Fairbanks and Company have had
Carl G.. Barth of Philadelphia, Pa,
an expert in scientific management,
inspect the local factory and report
his findings. This was done at a
meeting held in the Casino last week
Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
which the foremen and Office men
were invited to attend 1t is expect
ed that Mr.. Barth's plan can be ap-
piled to the factory in some of the
departments, at least, and will pro-
duce greater efficiency to both the
Company and its employees and
will submit the physical condition
OF the plant to rearrangement
which will best conduce to the work
being done. Machinery will be re-
arranged and brought up-to-date.
AS soon as can be arranged all work
will be either on day pay or piece
work so that the jobber will be
entirely eliminated in short
time This scheme will have to be
worked out gradually and as rapidly
as possible the company will follow
the line of scientific management in
detail.
The Fairbanks Company have just
completed after taking through the
experimental stage Ia automatic ele-
vator scales for the mammoth grain
elevator the Canadian government
is erecting in Montreal. These
scales are probably the largest scales
in the world and already several of
them have been completed though
none of them have, as yet, been in
stalled. Ten of these scales will
each weigh 10000 pounds of grain
per minute and four will each weigh
$4,000 pounds per minute. 1t can
be seen that if these scales were
worked an entire day they would
weigh large part of the grain rails
ed in Canada. The scales were plan
ned and designed here and are being
built at the Sherorooke factory
where a special building had to be
erected on account of the large size
of these scales.
The company are just bringing out
a new freight dial scale which will
be instantaneous in weighing and
the weight will be shown on large
dial instead of being taken on a
beam. There are several others be-
ing experimental upon along lines
uIn0TSAG 1IO4l any td1AS OS-
fore done and these aNiT1 include new
features and notifications of a !
class not heretofore manufactured.
P. F. Hazen will arrive in New
York, Dec. 5th, after spending con-
time in Russia, Germany
and Austria, in the interests of the
Fairbanks Company. 1t is expected
that large increase in foreign bus
iness will result from his trip for
Russia is one of the largest foreign
users of Fairbanks scales in the
world.
The Canadian business is growing |
and numerous new buildings
have been erected at the Sherbrooke
factory the past year. One building |
just erected is an addition 79 by 80 |
feet, to the foundry which will give
a 100o increase in capacity. A new
building has been built
go by 80 feet, two stories high, and
with convenient elevator. There has
also been building 100 by 33 feet
added to the depot and foundations
for new blacksmith shop 40 by SO |
feet have been put in and the build
ing will be built next spring. An
Office and pattern building two stori-
es high and SO feet long and SO feet
wide was built last summer. There
are now about 125 men employed at
the Sherbrooke factory and it is ex-
pected that this number will be
largely increased during the next
year.