The organization and methods of a modern industrial works

✍ Scribed by J.Wilmer Henszey

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1904
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 466 KB
• Volume: 158
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(04)90079-8

✦ Synopsis

The Organization and Methods of a Modern Industrial Works.

BY J. W~LM~.g HEtcsz~Y.

The Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Philadelphia, is prob. ably as good an example of a modern industrial works as we have in the country, and as I have been connected with this company for some years I will endeavor to give you an idea of how that plant is operated.

Baldwin Locomotive Works, at the present time, employ about x5,5oo men, who are divided among twenty departments. The executive force coasists of one superintendent, four assistant superintendents and twenty foremen. Owing to the extent of the works it is divided into two divisions, the eastern embracing all shops east of Fifteenth Street, and the western division taking in all shops west of Fifteenth Street, also new shops located at Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Streets. Each division