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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VARIABLES OF THE SURROUNDINGS
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ing, and overhauling a set of boilers, and at the same time
made a careful time study of each of the elements of the
work. This time study showed that a great part of the
Fig. 20. — The two-wheeled trucket for carrying 12 packs. This
trucket is so perfectly balanced that it causes less fatigue
than the ordinary wheel-barrow.
time was lost owing to the constrained position of the work-
man. Thick pads were made to fasten to the elbows,
knees, and hips; special tools and appliances were made
for the various details of the work. . . . The whole scheme
was much laughed a.t when it first went into use, but the
trouble taken was fully justified, for the work was better
done than ever before, and it cost only eleven dollars to