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up at once it is planned by the leading draughtsman and his assistant, gen- 

 erally in consultation with the writer, to whom the plan is always submitted 

 for approval, and plan cards are made out. A set of cards assigned by indi- 

 viduals is put on the planning board in the room concerned, and a single card 

 with a very brief digest of the job and the promised date of completion is 

 put on a similar board in the office. If it cannot be undertaken at once it is 

 put on the "Jobs to be done" hook on the board in the room concerned until 

 it can be taken up for planning. A complicated job requiring several men to 

 work on it is analyzed into its component parts, individual instruction cards 

 are made out for each employee who is to work on it, and these cards are each 

 hung on the hook belonging to the employee who is to take it up, in the order 

 in which he is to take it up. A sample card is here shown : — 



Job Ship 



File No. 



References 



Instructions 



Issued to Charge 



Started Total Hours 



Finished 



Bach employee's hook generally contains cards with instructions for (a) 

 the job he is working on, and (&) the next two jobs he is to take up. Standard 

 jobs which are repeated periodically, such as analyses of inclining experiments, 

 checking measurements of coal bunkers, and many others, have standard 

 instructions in printed or typewritten form, as follows : — 



