Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

130 APPLIED MOTION STUDY pared to working periods, and also their distribu- tion throughout the hours of the day.1 We have said many times that there is no waste in the world to-day that equals the waste in needless, ineffective and ill-directed motions and their resulting unnecessary fatigue. This means that there are no savings that can be made to- day that can compare with those made by elimi- nating useless motions, and transforming ineffec- tive and ill-directed motions into properly di- rected and efficient motions. “Motion Econ- omy/’ “Savings” and “Waste Elimination” must be the watchwords of the day; savings not only in money, but in the mental and physical elements that produce the money and the dura- ble satisfactions of life. It is for you to con- serve, to utilise and to increase this intelligence by training all people, and especially the coming generation, to become thinkers in elements of motions. The greatest wealth of the nation con- sists of the intelligence and skill of its people. i See “ Fatigue Study,” page 127, Sturgis & Walton Co., New York City.