Note that the top plate is in position and that the tools are at the right side of this top plate before the assembler is sent to the job at all. These parts are arranged in an obvious sequence, and a photograph similar to this is given to the boy whose duty it is to arrange these parts.] Final Adjustment. In its final form the method consisted of having the parts of the braider placed on the packet by an unskilled laborer or boy, putting large tacks on the floor, which located the table at the most convenient point possible in relation to the packet, which was made fast to the wall or of easel type, on casters, as the position where it must stand demanded. In addition, a small gravity, Johnson-Littlefield packet was attached to the table. This conveyed certain parts, by their own weight, to a yet more convenient position.[6] Changes in Type of Work Demanded. Through this adjustment the assembler used only his most skilled motions in doing his work. Meantime, the less skilled worker, or apprentice, who was loading the packet, was learning the assembly principle, and receiving an apprenticeship in assembly itself. Change in Mental Attitude. The effect of the adjustment was to establish easily and quickly a new set of efficient habits. The parts being arranged on the packet in an obvious sequence, and the tools being arranged on the table in the standard position, the worker necessarily performed the work according to the standard method, which was the quickest and least fatiguing method, every time that he did it. The result improved his working method, and acted as an incentive to him to do the largest quantity of work of the best quality that could be done with a reasonable amount of fatigue. Value of This Example. This example is even more valuable as a method of attack in the adjustment problem than it is as a specific illustration of a successful and rapid installation. The workers enjoyed the changes and accepted them in the best spirit of co-operation. Before using the method, eighteen braider base groups had been a large day’s work, per man. With the new method, sixty-six, per man, per day, were assembled with no added fatigue. The resulting saving pleased every one concerned, and has assured the maintenance of the method. Like all other methods, old or new, it must be submitted to certain definite tests. These it has passed with credit. The outlining of such tests is our next problem. [Illustration: FIG. 29 This picture shows a Littlefield-Johnson carrier packet. In this carrier packet the carriers by their own weight travel downward to a standard position at the bottom for grasping without looking at them, as fast as they are individually removed. This packet was invented by two men in the New England Butt Company, after they had seen our method of attack, and had begun to think of their work in the terms of elementary and least fatiguing motions.] [Illustration: FIG. 30