Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

134 APPLIED MOTION STUDY wherever possible, in existing or new institu- tions, opportunities for crippled brain workers to become productive, and have been ready and willing to devise opportunities and to furnish teaching for those previously engaged in physical work to learn and to use any mental work of which they are capable. They have, however, rea- lised with equal rapidity their limitations in placing crippled soldiers whose bent is towards some type of physical work, as they have seen that this line of placement lies in the specialised field of the management engineer. The engineer, both because of his training and practice, thinks largely in terms of physical ca- pacity and its concrete results. The engineer of to-day emphasises the human element as a factor in accomplishing results, and it is his peculiar province to make this human element most efficient. Knowing that the authors had specialised for years in this type of work, edu- cators in the various warring countries have urged them to attack this particular branch of the crippled soldiers’ problem, and to put the re- sults of modern management in general, and of motion study in particular, at the disposal of