Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

92 APPLIED MOTION STUDY standardised, the motion model or cyclegraph then acts as a definite and tangible embodiment of this standard motion, thus enabling one to maintain the standard with comparative ease. It in no wise precludes improvement, nor suggests lack of progress toward the ideal. In fact, it suggests improvements because of its continued availability for observation and study. It fur- nishes a very definite starting point from which such improvements are to be made, as well as a measure by which they are to be rated and judged. Through a comparison of the motions used in different lines of work, in the industries, in surgery and in other kinds of activity, it can be shown that the same identical motions are used in doing what are usually considered widely different types of work. This allows of an in- stantaneous location of the place where skill is lacking, of a tremendous amount of transference of efficient methods from one trade, craft or profession to another; and of a consequent sav- ing in time and energy. This is also the basis of our new classification of all activities in accord- ance with their motions and decisions. These models and graphs form also an important ele-