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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



February 10, 1921 



QUICK REPAIR 



for repairing splits, checks and other defects in lace veneers. 



Made in colors to meet the requirements of the best fin- 

 ishes of all cabinet woods. 



Put up m tubes for convenient use on surface stock and m 

 c|uart cans for larger defects m core stock. 



OUICK REPAIR has been used bv some of our custom- 

 ers for a number of years. 



Small Sample Tube Mailed Free on Request 



Perkins Glue Company 



Factory and General Offices: 



LANSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA 



Sales Office: 



SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 



Efficiency in the Wood Working Plant 



By F. E. 



Heywood Brothers and 



Our ideas of increasing efficiency are based more along 

 the line of standardization, specialization and elimination 

 of waste. We are looking at all times to get the different 

 parts of our product standardized, and to make them 

 interchangeable, etc., as far as possible. We think, the 

 fewer sizes and shapes a factory has, and still have a com- 

 plete line, the more efficient work it can do. Many times 

 the same legs, seats, backs, arms, etc., can be used on a 

 variety of patterns, and the designing department should 

 always have this in mind. 



After standardization, comes specialization. When 

 you have the work so well standardized that the parts can 

 come through in quantities, you are able to keep your 

 machines running longer on the same patterns, without 

 changing. In this w^ay, an operator becomes very profi- 

 cient in his particular line. The old idea, that every man 

 who did efficient work, must be an all-around mechanic, 

 and be able to get out his own stock and follow it through 

 until the piece of furniture was completed, is not only 

 out-of-date, but is a very expensive way to operate. A 

 man of average intelligence, who would not be considered 

 one minute as a mechanic, can be taught in a short time to 

 handle one operation in a very efficient manner, and do 

 better and much more work than a regular mechanic who 



Ackley 



Wakefield Company 



is changing from one job to another. With this system, 

 the factory needs but few all-around mechanics. The 

 foreman should be a good man who is everything that 

 the name implies (that is, "fore man" or key man) that 

 the other men can work with, and who is not only able to 

 teach them their particular work, but to show them its 

 importance in the completed article, and to keep them 

 interested. 



For it is easy for a man working on one machine to get 

 the cog-wheel attitude, and imagine that he is only a piece 

 of machinery grinding out certain work, w^hen his atti- 

 tude should be, that he is part of a team making useful 

 articles, and that a good deal depends on how well he 

 plays his position. He should be interested in the opera- 

 tions leading up to his work, and in the operations follow- 

 ing, and always ready to make suggestions that he thinks 

 would improve the whole team. And many good ideas 

 come from workmen with little experience, and who one 

 might think never had an idea. 



After this would come time study, for after your work 

 is standardized and your workmen made specialists, then 

 comes the idea of how much they should receive for 

 doing the work, and to know when they are doing a fair 



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