Frank Gilbreth's Cheaper By The Dozen

Cheaper By the Dozen describes many family stories of Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Frank Bunker Gilbreth and their twelve children. Life is full of pleasure with a dozen children in the house and this book is not just telling about the life of this big family. It could be teaching people a lot of useful knowledge and lessons about time saving and eliminating waste in various ways. This book can be a fundamental sense of awareness for us to know and learn the lean construction.
In this book, Frank served as an industrial engineer and his principal advantage is how to make time using efficiently. He often treats his children as cases studies to understand how to complete some tasks more efficient and reduce waste time as much as possible. In the same way, he observes workers’ working process then develop according solution for each problem to improve their behavior so …show more content…
Numerous papers and books published by Frank Gilbreth in which all about how to save time doing different tasks. In this book, the author mention that Frank would take some pictures of the process of their children washing dishes, then he studies their motion and try to find out how to reduce some motions to save some time so that the task could be completed more efficiently. No matter where he is, Frank always is an efficiency expert. For example, instead of buttoning his vest from the top down, he tries to put-on it from the bottom up and through this approach four seconds could be saved during the whole process. Another example is that he was just trying to assemble his children as soon as possible by giving whistle. He practices his children often. His practices were demonstrated very necessary in a day when a bonfire of leaves in the driveway was out of control and spread to the side of the house. Dad whistled like he usually does. Children assemble very fast, so in the end, no one in his family got hurt in this horrible accident. What is more, Frank thinks that