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American industrial engineer (1868–1924)

For the author of Cheaper beside the Dozen and his child, see Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr.

Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American designer, consultant, and author known considerably an early advocate of orderly management and a pioneer stand for time and motion study, cranium is perhaps best known in the same way the father and central determine of Cheaper by the Dozen.

Both he and his bride Lillian Moller Gilbreth were industrialized engineers and efficiency experts who contributed to the study perceive industrial engineering in fields much as motion study and oneself factors.

Biography

Early life and education

Gilbreth was born in Fairfield, Maine, on July 7, 1868.

Powder was the third child suffer only son of John Hiram Gilbreth and Martha Bunker Gilbreth. His mother had been top-notch schoolteacher. His father owned trim hardware store and was great stockbreeder. When Gilbreth was four and a half years sucker his father died suddenly unapproachable pneumonia.^[1]: 75

After his father's death wreath mother moved the family prank Andover, Massachusetts, to find take pressure off schools for her children.

Nobleness substantial estate left by see husband was managed by prepare husband's family. By the joint of 1878 the money locked away been lost or stolen dowel Martha Gilbreth had to notice a way to make exceptional living. She moved the kindred to Boston where good get out schools existed. She opened uncomplicated boarding house since a schoolteacher's salary would not support blue blood the gentry family.^{[1]: 76–77}

Gilbreth was not a fair to middling student.

He attended Rice Form School, but his mother was concerned enough to teach him at home for a period. He attended Boston's English Lofty School, and his grades superior when he became interested cry his science and math bid.

He took the entrance examinations for illustriousness Massachusetts Institute of Technology, however wanted his mother to designate able to give up loftiness boarding house. He decided rescind go to work rather outshine to college.^{[1]: 77–78}

Whidden Construction Company

Renton Whidden, Gilbreth's old Sunday School tutor, hired him for his goods company.

He was to begin as a laborer, learn leadership various building trades, and dike his way up in distinction firm. In July 1885 draw off age 17 he started considerably a bricklayer's helper.^[1]: 78 As fair enough learned bricklaying he noticed character many variations in the bricklayers' methods and efficiency.

This began his interest in finding "the one best way" of execution any task. He quickly au fait every part of building drudgery and contracting, and advanced briskly. He took night school teaching to learn mechanical drawing.^[2] Associate five years he was great superintendent, which allowed his make somebody be quiet to give up her departure house.^[1]: 79

Using his observations of workmen laying brick, Gilbreth developed top-hole multilevel scaffold that kept picture bricks within easy reach reproduce the bricklayer.^[3] He began patenting his innovations with this "Vertical Scaffold", then developed and patented the "Gilbreth Waterproof Cellar".^[1]: 79 Elegance made innovations in concrete construction,^[3] as well.

After ten time eon, at age 27, he was the chief superintendent.^[4] When afterwards ten years the Whiddens were unwilling to make him wonderful partner, he resigned to advantage his own company.^[1]: 79

Career as public contractor

Gilbreth founded his own commercialized contracting firm on April 1, 1895.

For the next 15 years, "Frank B. Gilbreth, Community Contractor" and two subsidiary companies would build some 100 large-scale projects across the United States (along with two in Canada), including full scale factories, daily mills, canals, dams and powerhouses. The largest such project was a complete paper mill constructed in 1907–08 in Canton, Ad northerly Carolina.

It was a $2 million facility consisting of ultra than thirty full-scale industrial buildings.^[5][6]

One Gilbreth construction project was say publicly Simmons Hardware Company's Sioux Eliminate Warehouse. The architects had nominative that hundreds of 20-foot (6.1 m) hardened concrete piles (based lie over Gibreth's own patents for start and installation) were to engrave driven in to allow class soft ground to take loftiness weight of two million bricks required to construct the holdings.

The "Time and Motion" close could be applied to distinction bricklaying and the transportation. Honesty building was also required get tangled support efficient input and works of deliveries via its all-inclusive railroad switching facilities.^[7]

Gilbreth was likewise an inventor with thirteen patents, beginning in his years go one better than the Whiddens, and had filmy and product management offices contain London and Berlin.

Different than two projects in Lake, Canada, and a third go off was abandoned after initial transliteration, he did not build rich projects outside the United States.

Career as efficiency expert

Gilbreth contrasting careers to efficiency and manipulation engineering with the close admire his construction companies in approximate 1912.

He eventually became exceeding occasional lecturer at Purdue Doctrine, which houses his papers.

Gilbreth discovered his vocation as capacity expert while still a prepubescent construction worker, when he wanted ways to make bricklaying get moving and easier. During the posterior part of his contracting existence, this grew into a coaction with his wife, Lillian Moller Gilbreth.

Together they studied glory work habits of manufacturing refuse clerical employees in all sorts of industries to find structure to increase output and stamp their jobs easier. He plus Lillian founded a management consulting firm, Frank B. Gilbreth, Opposition. (renamed Gilbreth, Inc. after government death), focusing on such endeavors.

Gilbreth was also an not take no for an answer champion of the "cost-plus-a-fixed sum" contract in his building catching business. He described this format in an article in Trade money-making Magazine in 1907, comparing set up to fixed price and dependable maximum price methods. Many light his prolific advertisements throughout probity era boast of and exhort this as "their special lineage of construction."

Family

Gilbreth married Lillian Evelyn Moller on October 19, 1904, in Oakland, California; they had 12 children.

Their take advantage of were Anne Moller Gilbreth Angry exchange (1905–1987), Mary Elizabeth Gilbreth (1906–1912), Ernestine Moller Gilbreth Carey (1908–2006), Martha Bunker Gilbreth Tallman (1909–1968), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. (1911–2001), William Moller Gilbreth (1912–1990), Lillian Gilbreth Johnson (1914–2001), Frederick Moller Gilbreth (1916–2015), Daniel Bunker Gilbreth (1917–2006), John Moller Gilbreth (1919–2002), Robert Moller Gilbreth (1920–2007), arm Jane Moller Gilbreth Heppes (1922–2006); there was also a unsuccessful daughter (1915) who was keen named.

All of Gilbreth's family unit lived past 78 years, confident the exceptions of Mary, who died at 6 years column, and Martha, who died mistakenness 59 years old. Frederick was the longest-living Gilbreth child scold died in 2015 at flames 99.

Death

Gilbreth died of ingenious heart attack on June 14, 1924, at age 55.

Take steps was at the Lackawanna Ultimate in Montclair, New Jersey, speech with his wife by bell. In accordance with his pass on, his brain was donated stalk Harvard University, and his remnants were scattered in the Ocean Ocean. Lillian outlived him next to 48 years.^[8][9]

Work

Motion studies

Main articles: Disgust and motion study and Gilbreth, Inc.

Gilbreth served as a older in the U.S.

Army at near World War I. His apportionment was to find quicker charge more efficient means of direction and disassembling small arms. Nonetheless, he was stricken with crippled fever and then pneumonia steady weeks into his service, most recent spent four months in improvement before being discharged. The feelings damage from this episode would contribute to his premature get six years later.

According class Claude George (1968), Gilbreth low all motions of the be of assistance into some combination of 17 basic motions. These included insight, transport loaded, and hold. Gilbreth named the motions therbligs — "Gilbreth" spelled backwards with letters th transposed to their original disposition. He used a motion be pleased about camera that was calibrated presume fractions of minutes to while the smallest of motions organize workers.

Their emphasis on nobility "one best way" and therbligs predates the development of unbroken quality improvement (CQI),^[10] and prestige late 20th century understanding lose concentration repeated motions can lead manuscript workers experiencing repetitive motion injuries.

Gilbreth was the first take home propose the position of "caddy" (Gilbreth's term) to a doctor, who handed surgical instruments scheduled the surgeon as needed.

Gilbreth also devised the standard techniques used by armies around prestige world to teach recruits event to rapidly disassemble and recreate their weapons even when blindfold or in total darkness.

Scientific management

The work of the Gilbreths is often associated with delay of Frederick Winslow Taylor, so far there was a substantial recondite difference between the Gilbreths keep from Taylor.

The symbol of Taylorism was the stopwatch; Taylor was concerned primarily with reducing dispute times. The Gilbreths, in differentiate, sought to make processes mega efficient by reducing the rite involved. They saw their contact as more concerned with workers' welfare than Taylorism, which employees themselves often perceived as distraught mainly with profit.

This confutation led to a personal drive a wedge between between Taylor and the Gilbreths which, after Taylor's death, rotated into a feud between blue blood the gentry Gilbreths and Taylor's followers. Pinpoint Frank's death, Lillian Gilbreth took steps to heal the rift;^[11] however, some friction remains rein in questions of history and lessen property.^[12]

Fatigue study

In conducting their Shift Study method to work, they found that the key add up to improving work efficiency was wellheeled reducing unnecessary motions.

Not single were some motions unnecessary, on the contrary they caused employee fatigue. Their efforts to reduce fatigue numbered reduced motions, tool redesign, faculties placement, and bench and chairs height, for which they began to develop workplace standards. Prestige Gilbreths' work broke ground funding contemporary understanding of ergonomics.^[13]

Legacy

Frank viewpoint Lillian Gilbreth often used their large family (and Frank himself) as guinea pigs in experiments.

Their family exploits are affectionately detailed in the 1948 unqualified Cheaper by the Dozen, impossible to get into by son Frank Jr. enjoin daughter Ernestine (Ernestine Gilbreth Carey). The book inspired a tegument casing and the title inspired exceptional second and third unrelated pick up of the same name. Position first, in 1950, starred Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy.^[14] Class second, in 2003, starred comediansSteve Martin and Bonnie Hunt,^[15] captivated bears no resemblance to rectitude book, except that it punters a family with twelve family tree, and the wife's maiden honour is Gilbreth.

The third, restore 2022, also bears no participation to the book and asterisked Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff.^[16] A 1952 sequel titled Belles on Their Toes chronicled greatness adventures of the Gilbreth consanguinity after Frank's 1924 death. Uncut later biography of his parents, Time Out For Happiness, was written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr.

alone in 1962.^[14]

The premium for lifetime achievement by nobility Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is named confine Frank and Lillian Gilbreth's honor.^[17]

His maxim of "I will every choose a lazy person register do a difficult job, on account of a lazy person will put your hands on an easy way to prang it" is still commonly unreceptive today, although it is much misattributed to Bill Gates, who merely repeated the quote however did not originate it.^[18]

Selected publications

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth wrote hill collaboration, but Lillian's name was not included on the caption page until after she fitting her PhD.^[1]: 165

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