Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

106 APPLIED MOTION STUDY me were not the methods that they themselves used. Now, I had the idea that, if I could learn one way thoroughly, I could be promoted in the shortest time possible to the higher position prom- ised me. It seemed perfectly obvious that to learn two ways would take much longer than to learn one way, perhaps twice as long. Yet each man was an expert, whose methods were considered perfectly satisfactory, and each was turning out a large quantity of work excellent in quality. Hoping to discover which method taught me was the better, after a short time I quietly placed myself between two other brick- layers of my own selection. These were as will- ing to teach me as the first two had been, but I became more puzzled than ever when I found that their methods were different and that neither one taught me either of the methods shown me by my first two teachers. Naturally, the foreman soon sent me back from my own wanderings to my first location. All my friends, however, had one common rule for me,‘ Keep at it on each brick until it is in true position.’ I struggled on, trying to follow first one method and then an- other that was being taught me, and being con-