Workshop Technology Practices

The prosperity of any community depends on how best they are able to convert the available raw materials into useful consumable products and be able to distribute them to equitable end users. The production of these products for their end use does not come by mere words but through the integration of knowledge and skills in a well-organized and managed entity. Our ability, therefore, to maintain a high standard of skill in our engineering workshops is an important factor in our general scheme of well-being, and the reader may be sure that the efforts he makes to acquire efficiency in workshop technique will react to the benefit of the community. From his own individualistic standpoint, the fact of his being a master of his trade will add to his independence, increase his status and income, and ultimately enable him to enjoy a larger share of the commodities he is helping to make. The knowledge that a skilled workshop engineer must possess takes many years of observant experience to acquire. The reader should note the term 'observant' experience because unless he enters the workshops prepared to give thought and inquiry to every piece of work he will never acquire the sense and skill which go to make the thorough craftsman. One person may spend years doing a certain job and learn less from his experience than another, who after a few weeks of studious application, has mastered the technique and is ready to advance further