Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

MOTION STUDY 78 Example. — Picking up ninety pounds of brick at one lifting. 2. By so standardizing motions that as few starts and stops as possible occur from the time the material leaves the stock pile till the time it is in its final resting place in the work. Example.—In laying brick by the “pick-and-dip’" method on face tiers, a brick is lifted in one hand and a trowel full of mortar in the other. The brick must come to a full stop in the bricklayer’s hand while the mortar is being laid and the bed prepared, and then move to its final resting place, unless brick and mortar are dropped in two different places. In laying brick by the “stringing-mortar” method, the mortar is laid and the bed prepared before the bricks are lifted. The brick are conveyed from the pack to the wall without interruption or delay. Standard methods of performing work may enable the worker to utilize the momentum. Example. — If the bricks are conveyed from the stock platform or pack to the wall with no stops, the momentum can be macle to do valuable work by assisting to shove the joints full of mortar. If, instead of being utilized, the momentum must be overcome by the muscles of the bricklayer fatigue, not full joints, will result. The ideal case is to move the brick in a straight path and make the contact with the wall overcome the momentum.