. Electric railway journal . tured, and the costs werecompared with manufacturers prices, in order to showif it was costing us too much. After eight monthstrial, although we had not had time to go into smalldetails of time studies, nor to take up the bonus sys-tem, we had been able to stop a lot of leaks and toreduce the cost of maintenance of equipment, at thesame time keeping the equipment in better shape. Themonthly pull-in report reproduced in Fig. 17 shows asmaller percentage of pull-ins than we had ever hadbefore, and the following four months showed a gradualdecrease from this. Handling
. Electric railway journal . tured, and the costs werecompared with manufacturers prices, in order to showif it was costing us too much. After eight monthstrial, although we had not had time to go into smalldetails of time studies, nor to take up the bonus sys-tem, we had been able to stop a lot of leaks and toreduce the cost of maintenance of equipment, at thesame time keeping the equipment in better shape. Themonthly pull-in report reproduced in Fig. 17 shows asmaller percentage of pull-ins than we had ever hadbefore, and the following four months showed a gradualdecrease from this. Handling Materials On account of the adoption of the planning and effi-ciency system at the shop we had been having sometrouble in the handling of materials at the car had a delivery every other day, and materials sentin to be repaired were tagged and repaired, and thensent back. r°i8 Mechanical Department Used for Departmental Accounting; For Materia! not in General Supplies. MATERIAL RETURNED FOR REPAIRS OR RENEWAL From. PLANNING SYSTEM—FIG. 17, MONTHLY PULL-IN REPORT PLANNING SYSTEM—PIG. 18, FORM FOR RETURNED MATERIAL March 18, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 547 Route 6anq. Workman
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