Part I : The Job 



CARE OF MATERIALS 



Section 1 



Waste and Salvage 



Reduction of Waste. Not the least of a fore- 

 man's responsibilities in connection with materials 

 is the reduction of waste to the lowest possible 

 point. No man or process or machine is one hun- 

 dred per cent efficient, and in every business there 

 is some inevitable waste of material which dis- 

 appears during manufacture. The high prices 

 and scarcity of materials during the Great War 

 taught the industries of this country many lessons 

 in thrift not only in money, but in every kind 

 of material. But in both the reduction and the 

 utilization of waste we are still far behind Euro- 

 pean countries and have much to learn. There 

 are companies in this country where the waste 

 alone would be sufficient to provide a reasonable 

 Jcnd on the invested capital. Few men in a 

 plant are in better position than the foremen to 

 help in reducing these losses. 



Some forms of waste are unavoidable and 

 necessary, while others are avoidable and should 

 be eliminated. The only hope with the unavoid- 

 able wastes is to reduce them to the lowest point 

 possible. In almost every industry there will be 

 cuttings, chips, shavings, ends, findings, etc., pro- 

 duced during manufacture. It is the A. B. C. of 



