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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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cutting proposals. And most of these recommenda-tions came from engineers who consider finding newways of producing quality products at less cost —and keeping the cost of telephone service down — away of life, as Watson puts it. Like other manufacturers—and industry in general-one of the biggest hurdles that Western Electric hasfaced in its pursuit against rising labor and materialcosts is the need to create cost awareness and a cli-mate of change and innovation. But over the years-its formal cost reduction program dates back to themid twenties—Western has been able to instill in itsengineers an attitude that changes designed to makea product at less cost are as necessary as meetingproduction schedules, attaining quality performancestandards, or introducing new products. Weve found that we must put the responsibility for cost reductions squarely on the shoulders of theproduct and planning engineer, says Quentin W.Wiest, general manager for engineering at WesternElectric. Give

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