Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman
Forfatter: Frank B. Gilbreth
År: 1911
Forlag: D. Van Nostrand Company
Sted: New York
Sider: 116
UDK: 658.54 Gil Gl.
DOI: 10.48563/dtu-0000026
With an Introduction by Robert Thurston Kent Editor of "Industrial Engineering".
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36 MOTION STUDY
motion study. It seems unfortunate that the govern-
ments of the world up to the present time have confined
all of their attempts to standardize motions to the arts
of war, and have done nothing in this line in the arts of
peace.
Size
Size of men, with relation to their motions, has much
more influence than is usually realized.
Short men are usually the best shovelers where the
shovelful need not be raised much in doing the work, such
as in mixing mortar and concrete. Few foremen realize
that this is because a short man does fewer foot-pounds of
work in doing the same amount of shoveling. On the
other hand, when men are shoveling in a trench, the taller
the men, usually, the more the output per man.
Oftentimes a staging is built at a height below a set of
floor beams that enables the men to work to best advan-
tage. On such a staging men should be selected of as
nearly the same height as possible.
Skill
The workman with the most skill is usually the one
who can adapt himself quickest to new methods and
conditions.
Example. —- A bricklayer who has great skill in his
trade can instantly lay a brick in the same manner that
he is once shown. To get him to do so constantly when
not supervised is difficult, but that can be quickest im-