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Ford Whitman Harris (August 8, 1877 – October 27, 1962) was an American production engineer who derived the square-root formula for ordering inventory now known as the
economic order quantity Economic Order Quantity (EOQ), also known as Economic Buying Quantity (EPQ), is the order quantity that minimizes the total holding costs and ordering costs in inventory management. It is one of the oldest classical production scheduling models. ...
, which has appeared in countless academic articles and texts over the past 100 years.Donald Erlenkotter, Ford Whitman Harris's economical lot size model, International Journal of Production Economics 2014 Born in 1877 and having grown up in Portland, after finishing high school he worked for four years as an engineering apprentice and draftsman for Belknap Motor Company and Maine Electric Company. In 1900 he moved to
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where he became a draftsman and engineer for Heyl and Patterson. From 1904 to 1912 Harris worked for
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. Ford W. Harris married Eugenia Mellon.Donald Erlenkotter, Ford Whitman Harris and the Economic Order Quantity Model, Operations Research 1990 Harris was also a self-taught attorney, and was the first president of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association. (https://www.laipla.net/past-presidents/)


See also

* Thomson M. Whitin * Harvey M. Wagner *
Economic order quantity Economic Order Quantity (EOQ), also known as Economic Buying Quantity (EPQ), is the order quantity that minimizes the total holding costs and ordering costs in inventory management. It is one of the oldest classical production scheduling models. ...


Published works

*How many parts to make at once, Factory, The Magazine of Management 1913 *How much stock to keep at hand, Factory, The Magazine of Management 1913 *Patents from a Patent Attorney's viewpoint, Machinery 1914 *What quantity to make at once, The Library of Factory Management 1915 *Inventions, patents, and the engineer, Electr. Eng. 1943


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Ford Whitman Engineers from Pennsylvania People from Portland, Maine People from Pittsburgh 1877 births 1962 deaths Engineers from Maine American patent attorneys