Journal of electricity, power, and gas . an; the bookkeeper himself can take care ofthe job cost records; the production man can each day layout in advance the work that each one of his crew is to dothe next day, basing the task assigned on his own intimateknowledge of what it is possible to do. In order that he maybe able to do this intelligently, he should work by means ofsketches, rough—overall dimension sketches are enough inaddition to his knowledge of the particular ground he is to cover. By having material estimate sheets, similar to the oneI am showing you here (Fig. 3), it will be pos
Journal of electricity, power, and gas . an; the bookkeeper himself can take care ofthe job cost records; the production man can each day layout in advance the work that each one of his crew is to dothe next day, basing the task assigned on his own intimateknowledge of what it is possible to do. In order that he maybe able to do this intelligently, he should work by means ofsketches, rough—overall dimension sketches are enough inaddition to his knowledge of the particular ground he is to cover. By having material estimate sheets, similar to the oneI am showing you here (Fig. 3), it will be possible for the plan-ning man to lay out the operations of the work to be per-formed together with detailed lists of material. This he canturn over to his material man to have filled. By going overthe jobs on hand the exact time in which the last job thatcame in can be done is readily determinable. The cost-keep-ing work can be taken care of day by day by the bookkeeper,who will enter up on his copy of the estimate the material Customer. $OOKfeepar. Fig. 2. and labor costs that have come in, and will note exactly howthe job stands. It will be his duty to notify the manager orthe production man of the status of- the work, and as soonas the estimated expenditure is about reached, he should havethe production man go over the work with him to see wherechanges or adjustments in the working schedule can be madethat will keep the total expenditure somewhere near the esti-mated amount. The production man will receive all jobs arriving in theshop; he will number them, and it is his duty to issue theinstructions to the cost clerk and the material man. Heshould make up the material list, tool assignment and jobinstruction cards or estimates. He should designate the par-ticular sequence of operations on each job, and the exactroute and order each operation of the job must take. Fromhis knowledge of his force he should assign the workmen toeach operation and task shown. All of the informati
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