Abstract:
The original terms of reference under which the project was undertaken
are included in this report and the requirements requested are satisfied.
On initial contact at Aliens, I was introduced to Mr. Colson, who
informed me that his company of Consulting Engineers had introduced a
scheme of methods engineering work study and incentives payment and that
the results on the grinding section were not fully satisfactory. The
machine loading was based on synthetics which were working in other
factories. There was methods and planning charts from which the
Methods Engineering and Planning Sections worked when loading work onto
the shops and it was required that the shortcomings of these charts
should be corrected. I was then introduced to Mr. Sargent, Chief Methods
Engineer. He assigned one of his staff to me. It was suggested
that we went down to the shop floor and consider the Lumsden grinding
machine, as this machine stalled when the feeds and speeds suggested
from the methods sheets were applied, but the main problem which it was
essential to tackle as soon as possible was the grinding of gudgeon
pins. Details of the work carried out on each machine are included in
separate sections.
