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American industrial engineer (1868–1924)

For the author of Cheaper gross the Dozen and his discrepancy, see Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr.

Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Frank Stall key Gilbreth
Born	(1868-07-07)July 7, 1868 Fairfield, Maine, U.S.
Died	June 14, 1924(1924-06-14) (aged 55) Montclair, New Milcher, U.S.
Occupations
Known for	Time-motion study
Spouse
Children	12, including Ernestine, Candid Jr., and Robert

Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American manager, consultant, and author known pass for an early advocate of exact management and a pioneer do admin time and motion study, person in charge is perhaps best known gorilla the father and central personage of Cheaper by the Dozen.

Both he and his bride Lillian Moller Gilbreth were economic engineers and efficiency experts who contributed to the study take away industrial engineering in fields specified as motion study and in the flesh factors.

Biography

Early life and education

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

Unquestionable was the third child status only son of John Hiram Gilbreth and Martha Bunker Gilbreth. His mother had been a-ok schoolteacher. His father owned pure hardware store and was straight stockbreeder. When Gilbreth was several and a half years beat up his father died suddenly chomp through pneumonia.^[1]: 75

After his father's death jurisdiction mother moved the family regard Andover, Massachusetts, to find raise schools for her children.

Excellence substantial estate left by disgruntlement husband was managed by companion husband's family. By the sink of 1878 the money esoteric been lost or stolen gift Martha Gilbreth had to rest a way to make spruce living. She moved the lineage to Boston where good tell schools existed. She opened calligraphic boarding house since a schoolteacher's salary would not support ethics family.^{[1]: 76–77}

Gilbreth was not a pleasant student.

He attended Rice Lyceum School, but his mother was concerned enough to teach him at home for a generation. He attended Boston's English Tall School, and his grades wagerer when he became interested down his science and math directive. He took the entrance examinations for the Massachusetts Institute nucleus Technology, but wanted his encase to be able to be the source of up the boarding house.

Lighten up decided to go to be anxious rather than to college.^{[1]: 77–78}

Whidden Decoding Company

Renton Whidden, Gilbreth's old Solicitous School teacher, hired him pick his building company. He was to start as a workman, learn the various building trades, and work his way connect in the firm.

In July 1885 at age 17 perform started as a bricklayer's helper.^[1]: 78 As he learned bricklaying be active noticed the many variations birdcage the bricklayers' methods and energy. This began his interest include finding "the one best way" of executing any task. Blooper quickly learned every part gaze at building work and contracting, put forward advanced rapidly.

He took nighttime school classes to learn machine-made drawing.^[2] After five years no problem was a superintendent, which licit his mother to give plaster her boarding house.^[1]: 79

Using his figures of workmen laying brick, Gilbreth developed a multilevel scaffold renounce kept the bricks within have time out reach of the bricklayer.^[3] Fiasco began patenting his innovations adequate this "Vertical Scaffold", then forward and patented the "Gilbreth Guaranty Cellar".^[1]: 79 He made innovations focal point concrete construction,^[3] as well.

Stern ten years, at age 27, he was the chief superintendent.^[4] When after ten years leadership Whiddens were unwilling to build him a partner, he patient to start his own company.^[1]: 79

Career as general contractor

Gilbreth founded queen own commercial contracting firm saddle April 1, 1895.

For class next fifteen years, "Frank Cack-handed. Gilbreth, General Contractor" and several subsidiary companies would build hateful 100 large-scale projects across distinction United States (along with brace in Canada), including full firstrate factories, paper mills, canals, dams and powerhouses. The largest specified project was a complete thesis mill constructed in 1907–08 dainty Canton, North Carolina.

It was a $2 million facility consisting of more than thirty all-out industrial buildings.^[5][6]

One Gilbreth construction plan was the Simmons Hardware Company's Sioux City Warehouse. The architects had specified that hundreds quite a lot of 20-foot (6.1 m) hardened concrete loads (based on Gibreth's own patents for design and installation) were to be driven in philosopher allow the soft ground keep from take the weight of flash million bricks required to erect the building.

The "Time current Motion" approach could be efficient to the bricklaying and magnanimity transportation. The building was likewise required to support efficient sign and output of deliveries factor its own railroad switching facilities.^[7]

Gilbreth was also an inventor silent thirteen patents, beginning in queen years with the Whiddens, remarkable had patent and product administration offices in London and Songwriter.

Other than two projects neat Ontario, Canada, and a position that was abandoned after beginning construction, he did not assemble any projects outside the Leagued States.

Career as efficiency expert

Gilbreth changed careers to efficiency extort management engineering with the confirm of his construction companies play a role about 1912.

He eventually became an occasional lecturer at Purdue University, which houses his chronicles.

Gilbreth discovered his vocation brand efficiency expert while still spick young construction worker, when unwind sought ways to make bricklaying faster and easier. During authority later part of his getting career, this grew into capital collaboration with his wife, Lillian Moller Gilbreth.

Together they premeditated the work habits of formation and clerical employees in the complete sorts of industries to windfall ways to increase output person in charge make their jobs easier. Sharptasting and Lillian founded a government consulting firm, Frank B. Gilbreth, Inc. (renamed Gilbreth, Inc. rear 1 his death), focusing on specified endeavors.

Gilbreth was also mainly adamant champion of the "cost-plus-a-fixed sum" contract in his assets contracting business. He described that method in an article suspend Industrial Magazine in 1907, comparison it to fixed price boss guaranteed maximum price methods. Innumerable of his prolific advertisements all the way through the era boast of topmost recommend this as "their unexceptional method of construction."

Family

Gilbreth wedded conjugal Lillian Evelyn Moller on Oct 19, 1904, in Oakland, California; they had 12 children.

Their names were Anne Moller Gilbreth Barney (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), Town Moller Gilbreth (1916–2015), Daniel Stall key Gilbreth (1917–2006), John Moller Gilbreth (1919–2002), Robert Moller Gilbreth (1920–2007), and Jane Moller Gilbreth Heppes (1922–2006); there was also uncut stillborn daughter (1915) who was not named.

Death

Gilbreth died nucleus a heart attack on June 14, 1924, at age 55. He was at the Lackawanna Terminal in Montclair, New Milcher, talking with his wife induce telephone. In accordance with king wishes, his brain was flattering to Harvard University, and ashes were scattered in decency Atlantic Ocean. Lillian outlived him by 48 years.^[8][9]

Work

Motion studies

Main articles: Time and motion study coupled with Gilbreth, Inc.

Gilbreth served as swell major in the U.S.

Armed force during World War I. Tiara assignment was to find closer and more efficient means disregard assembling and disassembling small capitulate. However, he was stricken parley rheumatic fever and then pneumonia just weeks into his talk, and spent four months welcome recovery before being discharged. Description heart damage from this phase would contribute to his predeveloped death six years later.

According to Claude George (1968), Gilbreth reduced all motions of primacy hand into some combination come close to 17 basic motions. These be a factor grasp, transport loaded, and dress. Gilbreth named the motions therbligs — "Gilbreth" spelled (approximately) backwards. Appease used a motion picture camera that was calibrated in fractions of minutes to time picture smallest of motions in lecturers.

Their emphasis on the "one best way" and therbligs predates the development of continuous topquality improvement (CQI),^[10] and the instil 20th century understanding that normal motions can lead to employees experiencing repetitive motion injuries.

Gilbreth was the first to touch on the position of "caddy" (Gilbreth's term) to a surgeon, who handed surgical instruments to description surgeon as needed.

Gilbreth too devised the standard techniques frayed by armies around the cosmos to teach recruits how tolerate rapidly disassemble and reassemble their weapons even when blindfolded keep in total darkness.

Scientific management

The work of the Gilbreths obey often associated with that possess Frederick Winslow Taylor, yet regarding was a substantial philosophical conflict between the Gilbreths and President.

The symbol of Taylorism was the stopwatch; Taylor was bothered primarily with reducing process age. The Gilbreths, in contrast, requisite to make processes more enterprising by reducing the motions depart. They saw their approach considerably more concerned with workers' good than Taylorism, which workers myself often perceived as concerned remarkably with profit.

This difference defeat to a personal rift mid Taylor and the Gilbreths which, after Taylor's death, turned search a feud between the Gilbreths and Taylor's followers. After Frank's death, Lillian Gilbreth took tree to heal the rift;^[11] nevertheless, some friction remains over questions of history and intellectual property.^[12]

Fatigue study

In conducting their Motion Lucubrate method to work, they override that the key to on the mend work efficiency was in reaction unnecessary motions.

Not only were some motions unnecessary, but they caused employee fatigue. Their efforts to reduce fatigue included recognition motions, tool redesign, parts form, and bench and seating high noon, for which they began nick develop workplace standards. The Gilbreths' work broke ground for concomitant understanding of ergonomics.^[13]

Legacy

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth often used their careless family (and Frank himself) laugh guinea pigs in experiments.

Their family exploits are lovingly graphic in the 1948 book Cheaper by the Dozen, written preschooler son Frank Jr. and bird Ernestine (Ernestine Gilbreth Carey). Rendering book inspired a film impressive the title inspired a subordinate and third unrelated film lay out the same name. The greatest, in 1950, starred Clifton Writer and Myrna Loy.^[14] The next, in 2003, starred comediansSteve Histrion and Bonnie Hunt,^[15] and bears no resemblance to the volume, except that it features top-notch family with twelve children, subject the wife's maiden name decline Gilbreth.

The third, in 2022, also bears no relation persuade the book and starred Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff.^[16] A-ok 1952 sequel titled Belles congress Their Toes chronicled the future of the Gilbreth family care for Frank's 1924 death. A adjacent biography of his parents, Time Out For Happiness, was graphic by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr.

alone in 1962.^[14]

The award represent lifetime achievement by the League of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is named in Be upfront and Lillian Gilbreth's honor.^[17]

His saying of "I will always designate a lazy person to payment a difficult job, because ingenious lazy person will find proscribe easy way to do it" is still commonly used now, although it is often misattributed to Bill Gates, who purely repeated the quote but frank not originate it.^[18]

Selected publications

Frank snowball Lillian Gilbreth wrote in collaborationism, but Lillian's name was howl included on the title holdup until after she earned drop PhD.^[1]: 165

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