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Excerpt from Field System
The manufacturer as a rule groups his tools, hu man and mechanical, at one location, possibly under one roof, in any case in one plant. His forces, under effective direction, may work as a unit; one branch of the industry is within sound of the whir of mav chinery incident to the next step in the process of manufacture. Such contact makes for unity, and sys tem may more nearly follow the points of least resist ance. A contractor has no such grouping of his forces by location to aid him. One structure is erected in one state and another perhaps a thousand miles dis tant. The one building may be a factory, the other a city sky-scraper. Both are structures, but further than this the analogy may cease. Such conditions, peculiar as they are to the industry, must be met by a complete ness of organization, and by an effectiveness and com prehensiveness of systematization, which will make for results in the strenuous competition which obtains in the building trade.
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