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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HUDSON PROSPERING THROUGH

EFFICIENCY.

Big Savings Through Manufacturing

Methods.

in materials at the ond of the day is approximately the somo whether output is 500 a day or 1,200.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, APRIL

30, 1927.

AERO ENGINES.

averaged 7 cents a car. While those indivdual economies scom small par car, the records show that in 1925 the company saved Notable Spanish Flight.| A good example of how the more than $100,000 in handling company cuts down the labour these incoming materials. cost of handling materials is its Shoot steel somos tied in method of handling valvos, Hud-"bundles" of ton tons oach, and son furnishes the company aup- standing on odge instead of boing plying the valves with a specially laid flat in the freight cars. The developed rack and the valves are company furnishes the stoel mills shipped to the plant in those with a patented device for tying racks. When shipment arrives, bundles, and the individual sheets instead of being unpacked in the are never touched or moved by old way and carted to the stock hand until they are ready for room and later handled again some machining oporation. Dotroil-Why antonobiles are trasted

when used, the racks go direct to solling at an average of 64 of Chevrolet mothods of producing the inspectors had counters and pro-war prices (and when imparts in great volume at the the same racks are then mochani- home" plant and assombling cally conveyed to the assembly proved quality is considorod at probably less than half of 1913 about 85 per cent of the cars ataing. Where there formerly used pricos for comparable car values/number of distributing points. when all other manufactured commodities are bringing from

By Philip S. Hanna.!

to

the Ford

Production Highly Efficient.

and

Saving in Damage Prevention. Ordinarily sheet metal is uus loaded by a crew of men, one shoot at a time. There is damage to be a large inventory of valves from weaving of the freight car on hand and three handlinge, then transit and scratches come valve supply now is held to throw days maximum and one day mini- from pulling ono shoot from an. other during unloading, but by mum supply, and they.

the Hudson scheme all this is headed only by the inspectors avoided. Rejections on account before reaching the point of use of damage in transit or unloading

are insignificant. in the notor assembly line.

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A notable flight has rocently been comploted by three Dornier- Wal flying boats belonging to the Spanish military forces. Starting from Melilla on the north coast

Morocco, thoso of

flying machines travelled by way of Casablanca, Las Palmas and Lagos

Fernando Po.. in Spanish West Africa, a total dis-] tanco of 4,500 miles..

to

This achievement is a tribute to the success and reliability of British acro ongines, us all the

fitted with Rolls- machines which took part in the flight wore Royce Eaglo IX. " ongines.

GLASS AND SAND PATROL.

150 per cent to 175 per cent. of On a square foot basis, Hudson pre-war prices, is clearly illustrat-probably turns out more auto od by the cost-saving methods mobile engines per hour than the which have boon introduced by Ford Motor Co. Mass production the Hudson Motor Car Co, during is common in the volume field, the past five years

but Hudson keeps on hand such

The ocononios in one year just Trucks Deliver Many Parts. The low-prices which have a limited amount of materials

fron unloading steel amounted to made Hudson famous have large- and makes such intensive use "of

A large number of parts come $57,600. The old method required" ly boon achieved through the its machinery that when 1.200 in by motor truck, suppliers 39 man-hours to unload a 40-ton

The service department of the simple process of ning in-ears a day are being produced located in Detroit and nearby car of steel. Now 2 men and the ventory materials quicker and there are less than 50 finishod

150 Railroad deliveries getting a greater Gutput from cars unshipped at this and of the cities delivering twice a day. 10-ton truck do the job in 1 hour, Automobile Club of Detroit has

50 or a lestening of costs by exactly glass and sant patrol to clear tho plant machinery than is com- day,

punctual that

company the Bryan ratio of 10 to 1. 30 glass from the streets after auto- monly done in industry. It is almost the truth to say carries but, a threo-day supply of man-hours per car, figuring an mobilo crashes and to sand ice-

of that Hudson has no stock room eartain coatings. There is no Mochanical convoyance

average of 8 freight care a day covered intersections when noces- materials has been developed to The dominant iden is tha

materials shall move as received, stocking of pistons or crankcases. for 300 days or $57,600, is the sav.sary. an unusual degree.

The underlying principle in the ing resulting from using the truck So quickly are materials con- without personal handling excopsudson scheme of low inventory and the "bundle" method. sumed in Hudson's unique man for inspection, direct to be and quick use by which the ufacturing processes that the machines or to the assembly amount of inventory is held down public actually goes riding lines. The amonut of mutorials Hudson and Resex cars before the hold for use of any series of to almost day-to-day needs; ja to accomplish three things, each of commitments for most of the raw operations comprises the only which has a bearing on costs, viz.; materials aro due for paymont. storing done by the company. As Hadson has no branch plants daily output rises or falls, the in- Its entire operations are conduct-flow of materials is adjusted ac ed in a compact area on the east cordingly. Work in process is side of Dotroit. Its methods lend increased or decreased by adding themselves to concentrated pro- or eliminating machines or men duction at a single point as con- so that the amount of investment

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An interesting innovation was recently introduced in handling shoot metal parts. Instead of the old plan of "stacking" fenders, hoods, oil pans, etc., and having

was formerly the custom. to han-l dle bodies on long high hand trucks, which took up nearly as much room without its load ne the body itsolf. Now Hudson uses

1 To save investment in in-in inspector pass on each, and 2 sheet metal bars having castors ventory not actually moving then having a crow of men place on each end on which the body is through the plant.

the pieces on a hand truck, Hud-set and moved as needed. Whon those bars are not in use they are stacked in piles and approximate- ly 75,000 square foot of floor space formerly used for storing body trucks is devoted to other pur poses.

Under the old high hand truck method the company required 118 mon to handle the body outout for a production of 1,300 cars af day, while at present, with use of the frame and castors, 49 men de the same job. This figures out about $7 a day saved for 69 men or $145,000 a year.

9. By reducing amount of in-sen has the inspector placó cach ventory to reduce factory squa co itain on a special rack as soon as footage required and save in-he has made his examination of terest on investment in plant...

it. The idea is that the inspector (3) To save labour cost due to might just as well place the pioco less handling of materials.

in a rock as lay it back on the floor. Thon an electric truck No Inventory Shut-Down in

comes along, picks up 2 racks at Three Years.

a time and rushes them to the Inventory is so small, well con-point of use on the balcony of the trolled and accoanled for that assembly room. Hudson avoids the usual heavy

Space Requirer its Cut Down. expense of annual inventory- taking The company has not The economics resulting from shut down for this purpose in

more intensive use of factory

Hudson Motor Car Co. has dis- three years. They keep regular space are truly astounding By inventory crews which circulate reason of the quickor movement inguished itself by pioneering throughout the plant daily and and the elimination of personal and developing many other labour which by use of standardized handling of materials, the space saving devices. Many of their material or parts containers can originally designed for the ma-developments are now standard take

accurate count of terials for 100 cars a day is now in the industry, but the foregoing materials in an unbelievably able to handle the material and touches only a few of the more short time wherever the stock parts for production as high as happens to be. Over a period, the 2,000 cars a day. Five years ago, work and the record of those whon Hudson was producing 200

been found 80 Crows have

cars a day there wore 200 hand accurate that the chartered ac- trucks in the plant; or one truck countants have approved tho per car; to-day there are no hand plan and now accept the crews trucks but 80 electric trucks or inventory for annual statement about one truck for 25 ears. The electric truck is not only faster but cuts down the number of trips required. Savings running into many thousands of dollars are obvious.

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purposes.

The underlying inventory principle is easy to put into operation because, as pointed out in the foregoing, the company practically has

stores of materials. There is established for each operation à certain minimum stock and when the supply at any point of use gots down to this level a warning tog is sont to the material control office as a signal of coming ex- haustion.

This 10-ton truck by the way is the company's own development, and they have 17 of them in use! in addition to 64 other electric trucks of smaller capacity. Whore ordinary factory trucks formerly used to handle 3 tons and make 5 trips to handle a 10- ton bundle of steel sheeting, the new truck makes but one trip.

Bolts, nuts, lock washers, and the like are taken out of the

More than $250,000 a year has boxes or kegs in which received, been saved by olimination of stock counted by weight and dumped chasors. Five years ago, when into metal pans of standard size, production was only 200 cars a and are never removed or handled day, as many as 150 mon and until they reach the point of use. boys were employed to run to the Each pan is tagged and one of stock rooms and "chase ma- the pans contains the special terials or parts which had run warning log. When the oppratore low at any given operation and on any machine get down to use which were holding up produc- of the pan with the warning tag tion. These men would to-day attached they send a notice, to earn an average of $2,000 a year, the stores department which pre-and 150 of them would cost around vents supplies giving out. In$300,000 a year. All of these men cidentally the pans used for have been eliminated by use of keeping all small paris are the standardized container and made to mast into one another, the warning tag system which When not in nse they take up provides an automatic flow, of very little room.

materials to point of use and Moveable Platform for Unloading, gives its own signal when the amount of materials at any opera- No single item of incoming tion bogina to got down to 'ex- materials or parts is unloaded on-haustion.

to the ground or freight platforms.

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Springs and frames, cylinder Stores Department Important Cog. blooks, wheels and rims, and like The company has a stores de- things which many plants store partment which is not only res in the opon are each provided (ponsible for the safekeeping of with a moveable platform, and tools, machinos and material, but are unloaded onto it direct from directs the movement of the same tha froight cars Then an electric | much like a train dispatcher. It factory truck of 10 tons capacity, is responsible for kooping ma- dosigned so that theso moveable toriais at the point of use in pro- platforms fit readily on it, picks duction and has become one of up the load and carries it nearest the most important departments the point whore either the ma- of the plant. As the company chining operations or the car as usos more than $1,000,000 worth sembling is being dono.

of tools a year the department is Tyres, wheels and rims are un-unusually important. Some of loaded directly into special racks, the economics in tool handling The saving in cost of unloading methods will be told in a subso. theso last year averaged 12 cents quent article.

a car. Springs and propeller An outstanding instance of how shafts, cams, crank shafts and fly the use of the electric truck and wheels unloaded and handled in its companion equipment, the these special racks resulted in special handling rack or body saving another 5 conts a car. The platform, has brought great econ- saving on handling shoot metallomies is in the body plant. It

important methods which have resulted in saving of many mil lions of dollars in the last 5 years in the cost of producing Hudson and Essex cars. The next article will describe how Hudson gets what might be called abnormal output from its factory machinery and how the investment in ma- chine inventory is kept down

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