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244 THe Marine REVIEW Job Order No..292/186.Title...P _Sub-Title.. WEST..VIRGINIA .... Appropriation....0..&..R.1910..Gen'l Head ...... 10... cee eeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeetre eens NAVY YARD, MARE ISLAND, CAL., Heresies jobas Sey Ie th. Sir:- You will please repair 36" Sail Launch Requires(Battens, Sanpsan6 praties | shoe on keel, bowsprit New (bolt 3/4", 2 hanging pads & stoppering chains, (2 standard pad eyes, 3 sockets for cranes, 8 (thwart plates, 14 thwart pins. Repairs )Footlings,after platform,bottom boards rollers to Jand bolts,2 mast thwart Clasps, fair leader for )bob stay ,receulk, burn paint, repaint. New out-( fit re- (2 gratings, quired. ( Repairs ) to )1 set chain slings, outfit.) 8 thwarts, 2 stern benches. forward platform. ESTIMATED COST ACTUAL COST PRR ew ee eee et ww ee ww eee tw we we eee eee ee ee we ee eee wee we Hee He FH HEH EHH ree e EOE eee ees Total Authority... Commandant's approval April..20,..1910......000... Date of Completion. POPS em eee Bere ee eer e ee Heese rsese eons Ho erseeeee eee rereesereeeseeeseesereeene Master. Boatbuilder....... Ai: ¥ares OUudarsi 9 1SGe).<e tase 9) o miim we neh 810; Romer WBC 8) OC 9.6 ese aeiiavianecere vi uaeiies ace OLeLe. To be returned to office upon completion of work Fic. 8--ReEPaIR JoB ORDER. man shy a job, the standing order is put. on his hook, third in succession, and the instruction card is carried out and put in the mechanic's rack, and the cards and standing orders for the material man are treated likewise. If the shop is full, the instruction cards, with standing orders attached, are placed in a pocket below the shelf be- tween the order files; there is a pocket for each kind and size of boat. There they wait until work runs low enough to admit of their disposition as above detailed. To make this easy instruction card racks are provided, one for each workman (Fig: 5). The top card is' the job the mechanic is on; it gives him his detailed instructions and the number to which he charges his time. Thus this card is primarily for the workman's informa- tion. -The second card is his next job, and all the materials and appliances for it must be there, ready for him. Thus this card is primarily for the guidance of the foreman; he must see that the job is ready, so that the mechanic can lose no time. The third card is for the 'second job: ahead; the stock for that job is on the way, and the card serves solely as an alarm clock for the foreman. Fig. 5 shows only two cards in the pockets; this is because the workman has just finished a job, and hung the Co-ordination of the Work. The planning of the work, and col- lecting of the loose ends, are done at the route board; the actual co-ordination of it must be done out in the shop. June, 1910 card covering it on the hook on the lower right hand corner of the rack. He then fleeted up the other cards, and started on his next job. The foreman's attention will be flagged by that card on the hook; he will examine the job, O. K. the card if the job is satisfactory, see that the stock for the next job js provided, and assign a third job. Com- pleted instruction cards he files with the job order; and he tears the correspond- ing standing orders off the workmen's hooks on the route board, thus auto- matically keeping the board in accor with the shop. Materials Other Than Lumber. I have had prepared a bill of castings and fittings for each kind and size of boat, so that when a new boat is or- dered the clerk can prepare requisitions on the storekeeper and shop orders on the other shops without delay. For a repair job he makes these out from a rough list given him by the foreman when the boat comes into the shop, be- fore work is started on it. The fore- man fills in the date on the shop order (Fig. 6) before which the article is re- quired, and thus--if luck is with him-- he gets his fittings at the same time they are required in the regular run of the job. A small stock of fastenings, calking cotton, etc., is carried in the tool room. When any of this class of goods- is needed by a mechanic, he or his helper gets it from the tool room by making Out 2. minor material slip' (Fig. 7). These are in common. use by leading men in the other shops and are used in the boat shop without modification in form. At the end of each week all slips are thrown together by job order num- bers and filed with the orders, and when a job is completed, goods of equivalent -- value are drawn from the storehouse, on that number, to replenish the stock. In this way, each job is readily made to stand the cost of these minor items, which total up to a respectable figure. Specifications for Work. A foreman's interest should lie in production, and best results will be ob- tained by his application to that end alone, the office to specify, and estimate on, his work. A leading man_ boat builder is placed in the estimating section of the main office, where his chief duty is to examine, and estimate on, all re- pair jobs going to the shop. His spec- ifications and estimates are then very carefully reviewed and revised by the officer in charge of the estimating sec- tion, before being incorporated in a job order. All job orders for repairs are in. great detail; the number of tim- bers to be renewed, what interior joiner