The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-09

that the material bought has been
selected as the result Of long evolu.
ton as TO its chemical and metallur-
gical contents, its shape and size,
and that frequent examination by
physical and other tests is made to
insure its being perfect in all these
respects, while at the same time
constant experimenting progresses 10
determine whether there Is made or
can be made something better suited
to the duty, or something at lower
price as well suited thereto. And, az
we sit down in his pleasant room, the
superintendent goes on to say that
he has reached the point on his an'
tomato machinery where he secures
90 per cent operating time and that
he is studying how to bring his
lathes above the so per cent of eff
ficient time, which is what they at
the moment represent
I have dwelt, gentlemen, too long,
and yet, as you know, very made
quately, upon certain details of Ger.
tain phases of modern shop in order
to bring your minds and mine to.
gether on a single broad truth that
underlies all that has been said.
This is, that in your buildings or
machines or various equipment and in
your material the most exacting study
has been used to fit each for the pur.
pose for which II Is intended. You
have spent, or others have spent In
your behalf, years Of patient expert
menting and sums that thousands will
not represent to determine how best
to adapt all these various elements to
one another SO that their relations
shall be harmonious, productive, eff.
ficient, and economical. BY economy
you have not meant the absence OF
spending, for these machines and
these methods have cost much
throrgh many years. but you regard
It as well spent. As between the
man who offers you q machine as a
cheap tool and another who asks a
greater sprice, you think first of the
question, What will these tools do?"
and it is the relation Of their produc-
tiveness to their cost that guides your
decision. Replace, let US suppose, in
the shop we have just visited in our
thought the present modern equip
ment with another Of the same class,
but selected chiefly because II is
cheaper in its first cost, and you ana
I know the result would be disaster
for the lesson as regards machines
has been well learned Inat productive
ness is more important than first
price.
zone more look into that shop be.
fore We change our theme. The ma
terial in the stock room, the careful
ly designed tools in the tool room,
the machines carefully designed tools
in the tool room, the machines care
fully selected and installed with equal
care-these are all dead things. Turn
on the power and the light, and il
that be all such action as results is
more likely to be disastrous than
effective. They will follow the laws
of their mechanical nature and wreck
themselves unless the conditions for
useful work are provided. There are
few places more dreary than a great
shop with its dead equipment; like a
steamer in midocean when the en-
gines stop, there Is sense of the
absence Of life. Let us look along the
lines of polished machinery and upon
the piles of ready material and on
the varied accessories and equipment
and think for a moment of the next
step.
rs there to be an end at this point
of the study and the patient care and
watchfulness that has guided us 90
far? Is the process of selection and
of economical investment based upon
production to be changed just at this
point? Having the best equipment
bought and arranged with it's cost
as secondary thing and its produc.
tiveness as the primary thing, shall
we put at these machines men whose
cost is the primary thing and whose
productiyeness we aim to extract by
a process called shop discipline!
Having with great care fitted tool to
mechanism, shall we or shall We not
use equal care to fit the men to
both? Having utilized the laws OF
light and of power and of mechanics
to the full, intelligently and carefully,