Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

8o MOTION STUDY or the sand from the pile to the barrow, will be the shortest distance possible. Of the necessary distance to be walked or reached, have as much of it as possible done by the low-priced man, and have as little of it as possible done by the high- priced man. Example. — With brick, have the tender put the pack of brick as near the final resting place of the brick as con- ditions will permit, so that when the high-priced man picks up a pack of, say, eighteen bricks, he requires a short mo- tion only. Have the high-priced worker always use first the stock that is nearest, this rule requiring the shortest motions in conveying the stock to its final resting place. Example. — In picking up brick from a packet or a scaffold the nearest brick should be picked up first. The brick that are farthest away serve as a reserve stock pile, to be picked up only in the emergency of not having any others nearer to pick up. It may be that the brick farthest away may not need to be used on that piece of work at all, or at least their place will not be occupied so many times by bricks to be transported with longer motions. Standard tools, equipment, and surroundings are essen- tial if length of motions is to be made standard. As already said when discussing clothes, the workman of the present should have even his overalls, belt, and clothes so designed that they will hold the different kinds of tools that are oftenest used, so that they may be picked