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efficiency of the drills led to his application of the underlying principles to
civilian enterprises, with unprecedented gains in productivity.
Ford applied motion efficiency throughout his factories, and he stressed
the importance of best practice deployment along with standardization.
Standardization means that everybody performs a given job in the best
known way, and this requires that the best known way be documented to
prevent loss of the knowledge or backsliding to inferior methods. Best prac-
tice deployment means application of the knowledge in question through-
out the organization, and this also requires documentation. Ford’s statement
(Ford and Crowther, 1926, 85) that “The benefit of our experie ...