page_title: John Tregoning
section_title: A Treatise on Factory Management, 1891
hierarchical_section_title: John Tregoning / Work / A Treatise on Factory Management, 1891
caption_attribution_description: English: A Treatise on Factory Management, 1891
context_page_description: John Tregoning was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and business manager from Lynn, Massachusetts, known for writing one of the very first books on factory operations in 1891. and as early systematizer of management.
context_section_description: As mechanical engineer and later superintendent of the Thomas Electric Welding Company and other companies, Tregoning had personally witnessed the vigorous growth of the American industry in the last decades of the 19th century. The scale of enterprises had significantly grown, and new large-scale enterprises emerged from the merger of existing companies. Due to increased specialization and division of labour and high scale production these enterprises became more complex to coordinate and to manage. A new field of operational problems around the management of factory operations emerged.
  In 1891 Tregoning wrote a book about his experiences and ideas, called A Treatise on Factory Management. With this work he was one of the first to supply a more systematic approach to management. Predecessors, such as Captain Henry Metcalfe (1885) had written about the operation and management of the military arsenal, and Joseph Nasmith (1884) was focussed on textile industry. Tregoning focussed in general on a "more detailed method for factory organization," which could be useful in any job shop, machine shop, or factory.
caption: A Treatise on Factory Management title page, 1891.
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