Significantly, the
core the new organization came from the Phonograph Works and
not from the laboratory. Edison and
his managers aimed streamline the process taking new
designs and transferring them the Works where tooling and
production engineering would carried out. Schiffl's move the
lab was the first step bringing many engineering functions
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FORMING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
It was time restructure the laboratory organization to
meet the challenge highly competitive market. When Schiffl
was transferred from the Works the main laboratory building,
he was put work the design new business phonograph,
on the request the division manager. new organization was
created bring the resources the lab and Works together
into coordinated system production engineering. Peter Weber did all these while
serving superintendent and also supervised engineers
attached specific products.
The duties the superintendent the Works ranged over
factory management, production engineering, and experimenting
in the laboratory with Edison. Engineering
was another function bureaucratized and fitted into the
work planning, production, and sales. 1909 Weber appointed an
assistant (Charles Schiffl) deal with engineering work such
as design new products and changes old ones
