Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

Ö2 MOTION STUDY plane passing through the body. It is so necessary to have the motions similar that often counterbalances and springs can be installed to reverse the motion, thus also causing the hardest work to be done in the most convenient direction. Anything that is used very often can be returned to place better, as well as with less motions, by gravity, or by the application of the gravity by some such means as a string and a weight. It requires some skill to use a wrench, but it requires no skilled motion or thought to return the wrench to its exact resting place with handle pointing in the most economical direction for picking up the next time it is used. The average machine to-day is designed for a short demonstration of quick output, with less regard for the least percentage of rest required for overcoming fatigue due to continuous operation. With demand will come supply of machines that fulfill all economical motion re- quirements. Union Rules The local rules of some unions are sometimes a hin- drance to standardizing motions and thereby increasing output. The higher wages from higher outputs under intensive management soon convert the desirable members, however. Many unions believe that extremely high outputs per man are against the interests of the union as a whole, on the theory that they may “work all of their members out of a job.” Furthermore, they often think that the sacri-