Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Robert L. Heitman [electronic resource], 1975Biographical NoteVice president and general manager.
Scope and ContentsIndustrial engineering degree; work for General Electric; move to Continental Can; line efficiency studies, budgetary control systems, optimal plant size; arguments about setting plant standards; emergence of satellite plant concept; value of a plant's informal organization; use of incentives in industrial engineering; regional organization of industrial engineering staff; personnel review, appraisals in Continental Can; reorganizing, managing aircraft plant; defence operations; general manager of manufacturing; quality and product improvement programs; modular vs. conoplant lines; division vs area organization; commodity trading, assets purchasing; pollution control; quality control; changing character of
(cont.) Continental Can.
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