Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

MOTION MODELS 99 were derived in industrial experience, and were first applied in teaching in the industries, but their use is not limited to the industrial field, nor to teaching of manual operations. The fact that this paper is presented here is indicative of the new feeling that is growing up in all fields of activity, of the necessity of corre- lation. This realisation of the importance of cor- relation is the outcome of many things. One is the tendency of this age to think in parts rather than in wholes, in elements rather than in grouped elements. In the olden times, both ma- terial things and human beings were invariably thought of as entities, wholes; but with closer thinking, and the awakening of the scientific spirit of analysis, measurement, standardisation and synthesis, has come the realisation that the fact that the thing or persons as a whole is often far less important than the fact that the thing or person is a group, or community, or combination of parts. The material thing is an- alysed into its elements. The human being is thought of as a group of working members. The old-time operation is thought of as a combination of acts. Now, finally, the motion itself is thought