Excerpt from The Commercial Organisation of Engineering Factories: A Handbook to Commercial Engineering, Being an Exposition of Modern Practice With Forms and Precedents for the Use of Directors, Secretaries, Managers, Accountants, Cashiers, and All Students of Industrial EconomyThe object of this work is to place in the hands of those responsible for the administrative control of our engineer ing workshops, and of aspirants thereto, a record of those principles which make for sound business doctrin and to demonstrate the application of those principles by an enunciation of the procedure that experience has proved to be of fundamental importance for the ultimate achieve ment of the purpose in view. The tendency of late years has been more and more toward the equipment of specially designed plant for rapid production and maximum output, with which consideration the question of fixed maximum remuneration of the workers has come to be regarded as irreconcilable and inconsistent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.