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354 THE Marine REVIEW September, 1910 Fic. 23--MiscrittaNgeous SMALL WorK SmiTtH SuHop, NortH WING. nearly all cases were made with but little consideration of the job itself, or of other work in the shop. In other words, we had added red tape and accomplished nothing. With a little education and constant watch- fulness, this was corrected. At pres- ent care is taken that the date given on which the work should be complet- ed is reasonable, and is the time that the work should be delivered, and the promised date of completion is only given after the work is carefully sized up. If the date is beyond the date on which the work is required, the foreman requiring the work is im- mediately telephoned and, if the ques- tion is not satisfactorily arranged, it is immediately referred to the shop superintendent. A tickler file is kept in each shop of promises made and promises due, and failures to keep promises are reported to the shop superintendent. All shop orders and job orders go direct to the foreman, who studies each job and notes on the back of the or- der such instructions as he thinks necessary. He also assigns the work, which he is able to do, for the stand: ing order board in his office, which will be described later, shows the work assigned to each forge or fur- nace. The orders then go to the route-man, who makes out the instruc- tion cards' which are to go to the men, and the standing order slips which are to go to the standing order board in the foreman's office. In the photograph on page 82, the foreman's office is shown. In Figs. 23 and 24 the route board and file case- are shown. The instruction card is given in Fig. 27 and is self-explanatory. At each forge or furnace, there is a metal holder with places for three of these cards, all cards being in view. The top card is the one on which the man is working, the second is the next job for which material, tools, draw- ings, etc., have been provided. The third card is work assigned, for which ma- terial, tools and information are being collected. Each workman in charge Of a gatic records on. this' card. the time actually spent on the job. For each instruction card there is a corres- ponding standing order slip which con- tains a brief of the job, the job num- bers, and the forge to which the work is assigned and the slip, shown in Fig. 28, goes to the standing order board. The standing order board is divided up for the various forges and furnaces, and has the numbers of the various men im charge ef © gangs over hooks on 'which 'the .order slips hang. The board also is provid- ed with file cases for active and inac- tive orders, and pigeon holes for in- struction cards made out, but not assigned, and pigeon holes for com- pleted instruction cards. When there are already three jobs at. a forge, the instruction card with the standing order slip pinned to it is placed in a pigeon hole under the proper heading. The foreman can at a glance at the standing order board tell the condition of the work in the shop. He can see where each job is and the amount of work in the shop Fic. 24--STANDING OrpDER Boarp IN FoREMAN'S OFFICE. AND STATUS oF EacH Jos Can BE QUICKLY DETERMINED). (From Tuis THE LOCATION