We have taken cabinetmakers and taught them to run boring mills; blank book salesmen to assemble units for our SURFACE GRINDERS; shoemakers to assemble units for SURFACE GRINDERS; carpenters to run turret lathes, and plain helpers or sweepers to break in on Surface and Floor Motor Grinders.
We also have a number of women in the shop whom we have taken in without their having any previous experience in machine work, and taught them various operations, such as broaching, bench work, drilling, turning bevel gears, vise work, cutting long threads, and work of a similar nature, and have found them very satisfactory on this class of work.
We have endeavored to teach them the rudiments of this work before putting them on to regular production work, but after they master the first part of it, all the work that is done is on a regular production basis, and we have found in a great many cases that they have been able to reduce the time taken per piece to a very marked degree over what has formerly been taken by men.
I send herewith eight photographs of our operatives that have been broken into skilled work of various kinds throughout our shop, that has previously been done by men skilled in the particular line involved.
We think that some of these are almost remarkable, when we consider what our attitude was two years ago on work of this kind, refusing absolutely to put anyone on who had not been skilled in the particular line involved.
(Signed) Winfield W. Blakeman,
Superintendent.
Assembly of our caliper device used in connection with our high-power vertical-surface grinder, for fine measurements on parts being surface ground.
Done by “a man 63 years old, a shoemaker by trade, who has been on this work since June 27, 1918, and has learned in that time to completely assemble these delicate instruments, making the proper adjustments, lapping and doing a quality of work that passes a rigid inspection.” Blanchard Machine Co.
