Discussion on "Production management technique", by G. Still, at the London Section of the Institution

MR. J. G. LEGG: I will leave to abler voices than mine the task of congratulating Mr. Still on a very interesting and carefully thought out paper. My task is the more uncongenial one of endeavouring to find fault with it, and since in an impulsive moment I agreed to open this discussion it has occurred to me that there could be no task less congenial to an Irishman than to quarrel with the products of a Still. The subject-matter of this lecture is to a large extent not a matter of fact but of opinion, and as such it is controversial. So far as any remarks which I may offer are concerned they will centre solely round Mr. Still´s organisation charts because I entirely agree with him that those are the fundamentals of production management; and that whatever the clerical system may be, that may fall down 4ue to initial errors in organisation.