HST 701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Frederick Winslow Taylor, Midvale Steel, Rideau Canal
19 Sep 2016
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Hst 701 - scientific technology and modern society. Taylorism: applying the american system of manufacturing and labour. Deteriorating eyesight - couldn"t go to harvard law school. Employee"s perspective: owners will demand greater productivity. Goal: make entire factory and workers more efficient. Time and motion studies time and motion studies 1882 stopwatch: time and analyze worker"s movements reduced complex motions to elementary ones standardized "right" series of movements create new norm. Detailed worked instructions: - stand, lift, etc time moves for efficient work new piecework rate -> bonuses for faster work, penalties for slower. Use better designed tools to increase efficiency. Reorganize factory to work more like a machine. Only experts need apply hire educated, skilled, and trained individuals who could: use flow charts, advanced planning, prepare designs specify components. 3. coordinate deliveries of right amounts of materials. 4. record progress of manufacturing processes: prevent idleness: no waiting for materials or congestion. Someone who fit all of the skills: engineers.
