Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

78 APPLIED MOTION STUDY This paper describes and attempts to make useful the history of such an investigation, a search for and the devising of satisfactory devices for meas- uring achievement. It is a fortunate thing to be born in an age like the present, when the scientific spirit prevails in all fields, and where everything can be legiti- mately submitted to measurement. The world- wide desire to ascertain causes made it a simple matter to realise that large output or achieve- ment was not in itself so important as the reasons for this achievement, with the consequent placing of the emphasis upon the methods and their re- sults rather than upon the results alone. The writers thus became impressed early with the im- portance of obtaining as accurate and detailed records of methods as possible, if achievements were ever to be accurately measured. This methods study was formulated into mo- tion study, and divided into three parts: 1. Study of the variables of the worker. 2. Study of the variables of the surroundings, equipment and tools. .3 . Study of the variables of the motion itself.1 1 See “ Motion Study,” D. Van Nostrand, 25 Park Place, New York,