History Of Value Engineering - Miles, Lawrence D. (My University, 1964)
Tells story of development of VA. Main themes: discovery that "Unnecessary cost is a people problem"; importance of identifying function; historical reaction to VA in three phases--ignore it, oppose it, accept it; VA's evolution into a "complete system.
Keywords: Value Analysis (Cost Control); Economic Engineering; Save; History; Resistance; Speech; American Institute Of Industrial Engineers, (Aiie); Save, New York, Ny