Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

82 APPLIED MOTION STUDY sixty-six were assembled after the results of the study had been incorporated in the shop prac- tice. The savings were the direct result of the micromotion study, combined with the improved placement or assignment of the workers to the work, and the improved surroundings, equipment and tools with which the work was done, that oc- curred in connection with it. We have here ac- curate devices for recording achievement and for measuring the amount of time consumed by the achievement. The motions that made up the method by which the achievement was secured are also here accurately recorded. If the aim of making motion standards had been simply to provide instruction or time study data for those already skilled in the art of doing the work, the micromotion records would prob- ably have answered every requirement, but, im- portant as it is that those who know how to do the work in any fashion shall be taught the best way, it is even more important, for the savings, that the learner shall he taught the hest way im- mediately, that is, from the beginning of his prac- tice. When it came to the transference of skill, the micromotion records were not completely sat-