South Bend news-times., 1922-11-22

as follows:
Administration and Management
Board OF Directors.
Financial committee.
officials
Plant and Equipment
VI & s. Det. in cooperation with
production managers.
Select and install machine tools.
Keep numerical record. with loca-
tion and record by types OF machines.
Make time studies OF machine op-
erations. and attach plates TO ma
chimes. showing same.
Jigs and tools designed in each
plant under supervision Of produc-
ton managers by separate tool de-
signing departments, stocked in each
plant.
VI. & s. keeps stock records of
tools in all plants
Production.
Management determines kind,
number, and character of products.
Development Of Product.
Engineer department i'm charge.
I. Rough sketches made by chief
engineer and principal assistants.
2. Drawings made and check by
craftsmen showing suggested mate
rials. .. K.'d by c. r.
8. Materials. Approved by NJ. g.
T. Practlcability Of commercial
manufacture. Approved by NJ. & S.
.. Experimental parts. Sample
Jobs made by NJ. & s. and expert
mental department Jointly.
8. Tests OF sample jobs made by
engineering department, laboratory,
experimental department and chief
executives.
Manufacture of Product.
j. Approved for production by
finance committee.
There are 0.O0O parts in Stude-
baker car. and about 10000 tests
and inspections are made daily in
our factories, engineer department
and laboratories.
Research Work.
The engineering department is
constantly testing materials used by
ourselves and others and those sug-
gested for use; also builds and tests
new designs Of different parts and
finished cars: also discounts and
tests and compares competitive cars
constantly. Thousands of Inspections
and tests are made in t-lis depart
ment every year.
Cost Department
Labor and material costs are con-
stanty prepared, and monthly cost
reports for parts and finished cars
are available for the management
on the 18th OF each month.
Physical inventories OF work in
| progress and finished cars are taken
quarterly. Running inventories OF
stores are maintained by constant
audits OF stock with cards
/ Operating expense reports are
made monthly. showing amounts of
! expenses, productive labor and rates
of overheads by departments. The
| speaker referred 10 the cooperative
department of which he is the head,
at the Studebaker plants, as some
/ thing entirely different from the So
called welfare departments. OF the
| latter he spoke rather disparaging-
/ ly. saying that. whereas the welfare
! department was quite a fad through
OH. the industrial world some years
! ago. they have nearly all faded out
| since 1920: that they are repugnant
TO the worker because they smatter
/ OF paternalism. DR.. Lippincoti
stated that the welfare department
/ is neither ethnically nor economical
} " sound. He said I'VE determined
/ that our plans should not be tine
tured by paternausm We don't be-
/ lieve in fostering self-respect. in
| dividualism. self-reliance and inde-
pendence. We ruled the welfare de-
partment out es unethical and un-
I sound. It is difficult 10 administer
] welfare work. We reward cOntinu-
Gus service by making Il possible for
/ our employees to earn more for them
} selves and for us We do not follow
/ our employees into their homes and
snooD into their private affairs.
we believe in letting people earn
! money ard spend It as they see Mt
.hus re'aining their independence
They may make mistakes hut they
VIII learn - exDerience. We need
. 90 create a no nv. independent. self
/ reliant personality Introduce into
auv business q system not econ0mi
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