Excerpt from Industrial Plants Their Arrangement and Construction The inclusion of a volume upon works construction in a library of "Works Management" is a purposeful recognition of the fact that efficiency and economy in manufacturing must consider much more than the mere operation of the plant in which the processes of production are carried on. The factors considered by Mr. Day - the arrangement and construction of industrial works - are indeed primary. They concern the organic constitution of the factory, and hence are of more potential importance even than systems of management, which concern functional conditions. Functional disorders, even if severe, may be reduced by treatment; but an organic inefficiency embodied in the design and structure of the plant itself is incurable, and is imposed in dependent sequence upon all later operations. Mr. Day's development of the subject is thoroughly adequate to its importance. His extension of the scientific method into this relatively new field is unique.

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