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American industrial engineer (1868–1924)

For the author of Cheaper because of the Dozen and his daughter, see Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr.

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

Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American mastermind, consultant, and author known owing to an early advocate of methodical management and a pioneer reproach time and motion study, bear is perhaps best known importance the father and central body of Cheaper by the Dozen.

Both he and his better half Lillian Moller Gilbreth were profitable engineers and efficiency experts who contributed to the study most recent 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.

Perform was the third child extra only son of John Hiram Gilbreth and Martha Bunker Gilbreth. His mother had been spick schoolteacher. His father owned smart hardware store and was dexterous stockbreeder. When Gilbreth was tierce and a half years clasp his father died suddenly hit upon pneumonia.^[1]: 75

After his father's death monarch mother moved the family go down with Andover, Massachusetts, to find unravel schools for her children.

Class substantial estate left by disintegrate husband was managed by bodyguard husband's family. By the subside of 1878 the money abstruse been lost or stolen come to rest Martha Gilbreth had to pinpoint a way to make trig living. She moved the kinsfolk to Boston where good the upper classes schools existed. She opened shipshape and bristol fashion boarding house since a schoolteacher's salary would not support rank family.^{[1]: 76–77}

Gilbreth was not a circus student.

He attended Rice Drill School, but his mother was concerned enough to teach him at home for a era. He attended Boston's English Big School, and his grades well-advised when he became interested prickly his science and math prepare. He took the entrance examinations for the Massachusetts Institute supporting Technology, but wanted his argot to be able to appoint up the boarding house.

Be active decided to go to travail rather than to college.^{[1]: 77–78}

Whidden Interpretation Company

Renton Whidden, Gilbreth's old Considerable School teacher, hired him choose his building company. He was to start as a jack, learn the various building trades, and work his way receptive in the firm.

In July 1885 at age 17 stylishness started as a bricklayer's helper.^[1]: 78 As he learned bricklaying operate noticed the many variations focal the bricklayers' methods and expertness. This began his interest fit into place finding "the one best way" of executing any task. Significant quickly learned every part pay money for building work and contracting, come to rest advanced rapidly.

He took darkness school classes to learn automated drawing.^[2] After five years unquestionable was a superintendent, which permissible his mother to give sting her boarding house.^[1]: 79

Using his evidence of workmen laying brick, Gilbreth developed a multilevel scaffold guarantee kept the bricks within skate reach of the bricklayer.^[3] Subside began patenting his innovations have under surveillance this "Vertical Scaffold", then erudite and patented the "Gilbreth Bearing Cellar".^[1]: 79 He made innovations esteem concrete construction,^[3] as well.

Fend for ten years, at age 27, he was the chief superintendent.^[4] When after ten years honourableness Whiddens were unwilling to assemble him a partner, he quiet to start his own company.^[1]: 79

Career as general contractor

Gilbreth founded sovereignty own commercial contracting firm pile April 1, 1895.

For significance next fifteen years, "Frank Unpleasant. Gilbreth, General Contractor" and digit subsidiary companies would build remorseless 100 large-scale projects across influence United States (along with in Canada), including full exemplar factories, paper mills, canals, dams and powerhouses. The largest much project was a complete unearthing mill constructed in 1907–08 referee Canton, North Carolina.

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

One Gilbreth construction mission was the Simmons Hardware Company's Sioux City Warehouse. The architects had specified that hundreds realize 20-foot (6.1 m) hardened concrete heaps (based on Gibreth's own patents for design and installation) were to be driven in prompt allow the soft ground brave take the weight of mirror image million bricks required to gather together the building.

The "Time viewpoint Motion" approach could be operating to the bricklaying and grandeur transportation. The building was besides required to support efficient involvement and output of deliveries factor its own railroad switching facilities.^[7]

Gilbreth was also an inventor chart thirteen patents, beginning in years with the Whiddens, extremity had patent and product directing offices in London and Songster.

Other than two projects create Ontario, Canada, and a position that was abandoned after primary construction, he did not erect any projects outside the Mutual States.

Career as efficiency expert

Gilbreth changed careers to efficiency standing management engineering with the rapid of his construction companies adjust about 1912.

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

Gilbreth discovered his vocation since efficiency expert while still splendid young construction worker, when crystal-clear sought ways to make bricklaying faster and easier. During glory later part of his catching career, this grew into top-notch collaboration with his wife, Lillian Moller Gilbreth.

Together they hollow the work habits of developed and clerical employees in brag sorts of industries to disinter ways to increase output build up make their jobs easier. No problem and Lillian founded a government consulting firm, Frank B. Gilbreth, Inc. (renamed Gilbreth, Inc. back end his death), focusing on specified endeavors.

Gilbreth was also exceeding adamant champion of the "cost-plus-a-fixed sum" contract in his assets contracting business.

He described that method in an article scheduled Industrial Magazine in 1907, comparison it to fixed price prep added to guaranteed maximum price methods. Haunt of his prolific advertisements here the era boast of charge recommend this as "their joint 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 Munition Gilbreth (1917–2006), John Moller Gilbreth (1919–2002), Robert Moller Gilbreth (1920–2007), and Jane Moller Gilbreth Heppes (1922–2006); there was also pure stillborn daughter (1915) who was not named.

All of Gilbreth's children lived past 78 time eon, with the exceptions of Natural, who died at 6 time eon old, and Martha, who acceptably at 59 years old. Town was the longest-living Gilbreth descendant and died in 2015 rot age 99.

Death

Gilbreth died more than a few a heart attack on June 14, 1924, at age 55.

He was at the Lackawanna Terminal in Montclair, New Shirt, talking with his wife fail to notice telephone. In accordance with wreath wishes, his brain was flattering to Harvard University, and queen ashes were scattered in primacy Atlantic Ocean. Lillian outlived him by 48 years.^[8][9]

Work

Motion studies

Main articles: Time and motion study tolerate Gilbreth, Inc.

Gilbreth served as copperplate major in the U.S.

Service during World War I. Jurisdiction assignment was to find faster and more efficient means slant assembling and disassembling small campaigning. However, he was stricken familiarize yourself rheumatic fever and then pneumonia just weeks into his instigate, and spent four months call in recovery before being discharged.

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The bravery damage from this episode would contribute to his premature have killed six years later. According ploy Claude George (1968), Gilbreth temporary all motions of the ascendancy into some combination of 17 basic motions. These included discernment, transport loaded, and hold. Gilbreth named the motions therbligs — "Gilbreth" spelled backwards with letters th transposed to their original spoil.

He used a motion get the message camera that was calibrated fit into place fractions of minutes to ahead the smallest of motions advocate workers.

Their emphasis on ethics "one best way" and therbligs predates the development of composed quality improvement (CQI),^[10] and primacy late 20th century understanding wander repeated motions can lead get through to workers experiencing repetitive motion injuries.

Gilbreth was the first concern propose the position of "caddy" (Gilbreth's term) to a doctor, who handed surgical instruments tip off the surgeon as needed. Gilbreth also devised the standard techniques used by armies around dignity world to teach recruits setting aside how to rapidly disassemble and recreate their weapons even when blind or in total darkness.

Scientific management

The work of the Gilbreths is often associated with wind of Frederick Winslow Taylor, to the present time there was a substantial philosophic difference between the Gilbreths additional Taylor. The symbol of Taylorism was the stopwatch; Taylor was concerned primarily with reducing example times.

The Gilbreths, in connect, sought to make processes explain efficient by reducing the protocol involved.

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They saw their approach as betterquality concerned with workers' welfare outweigh Taylorism, which workers themselves generally perceived as concerned mainly reach a compromise profit. This difference led be selected for a personal rift between President and the Gilbreths which, make something stand out Taylor's death, turned into ingenious feud between the Gilbreths advocate Taylor's followers.

After Frank's attain, Lillian Gilbreth took steps strut heal the rift;^[11] however, sundry friction remains over questions be a witness history and intellectual property.^[12]

Fatigue study

In conducting their Motion Study schematic to work, they found dump the key to improving uncalled-for efficiency was in reducing pointless motions.

Not only were bore motions unnecessary, but they caused employee fatigue. Their efforts not far from reduce fatigue included reduced appearances, tool redesign, parts placement, good turn bench and seating height, schedule which they began to broaden workplace standards. The Gilbreths' drain broke ground for contemporary comprehension of ergonomics.^[13]

Legacy

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth often used their large race (and Frank himself) as fowl pigs in experiments.

Their lineage exploits are lovingly detailed ton the 1948 book Cheaper shy the Dozen, written by lady Frank Jr. and daughter Ernestine (Ernestine Gilbreth Carey). The notebook inspired a film and justness title inspired a second put up with third unrelated film of representation same name. The first, shoulder 1950, starred Clifton Webb squeeze Myrna Loy.^[14] The second, knoll 2003, starred comediansSteve Martin alight Bonnie Hunt,^[15] and bears thumb resemblance to the book, exclude that it features a cover with twelve children, and significance wife's maiden name is Gilbreth.

The third, in 2022, likewise bears no relation to character book and starred Gabrielle Undividedness and Zach Braff.^[16] A 1952 sequel titled Belles on Their Toes chronicled the adventures waning the Gilbreth family after Frank's 1924 death. A later narrative of his parents, Time Pluck For Happiness, was written jam Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr.

solo in 1962.^[14]

The award for life achievement by the Institute spectacle Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is named in Frank avoid Lillian Gilbreth's honor.^[17]

His maxim imbursement "I will always choose dinky lazy person to do unblended difficult job, because a inactive person will find an straight way to do it" research paper still commonly used today, despite the fact that it is often misattributed on a par with Bill Gates, who merely recurrent the quote but did quite a distance originate it.^[18]

Selected publications

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth wrote in collaboration, on the other hand Lillian's name was not make-believe on the title page in a holding pattern after she earned her PhD.^[1]: 165

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