Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

MhHI 4 MOTION STUDY applied to unsystematized work, the output can be more than doubled, with no increase in cost. When the Interim system takes up the work of stand- ardizing the operations performed, motion study enables the time-study men to limit their work to the study of correct methods only. This is an immense saving in time, labor, and costs, as the methods studied comply, as nearly as is at that stage possible, with the standard methods that will be synthetically constructed after the time study has taken place. Even when Ultimate system has finally been installed, and the scientifically timed elements are ready and at hand to be used by the instruction card man in determining the tasks, or schedules, the results of motion study serve as a collection of best methods of performing work that can be quickly and economically incorporated into instruction cards. Motion study, as a means of increasing output under the military type of management, has consciously proved its usefulness on the work for the past twenty-five years. Its value as a permanent element for standardizing work and its important place in scientific management have been appreciated only since observing its standing among the laws of management given to the world by Mr. Fred- erick W. Taylor, that great conservator of scientific in- vestigation, who has done more than all others toward reducing the problem of management to an exact science.