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Frank Gilbreth, and their contemporaries put on the shelf long ago for us to

pick up and use whenever we want them.

Energy Efficiency Gap Analysis: Thought Process

Emerson (1912, Chapter 1, “Typical Inefficiencies and Their Significance,”

4–5) provides several highly unfavorable comparisons of industrial processes

to natural and biological processes. There may have been no practical alter-

native to the latter in 1909, but the comparison shows what can be done,

and some of it has been done during the last decade. The key principle is

that no improvement process can begin until the organization recognizes the ...