Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

142 APPLIED MOTION STUDY at the method of least waste for performing the work. Through special teaching devices we then transfer the selected elements of skill and expe- rience, in a new synthesised cycle of least waste, to workers who have never had that all around, non-guided experience or its slowly acquired skill. Not only are the methods transferred more effi- ciently but there is saving of time and effort to both teacher and learner, as is satisfactorily shown by learning curves of many past perform- ances on widely varied types of work. The teach- ing devices, which we have specially adapted to appeal to as many types of workers as possible and to all available senses, are especially useful with crippled learners, where it is often neces- sary to specialise on some particular sense train- ing. The fatigue study that accompanies the motion study provides for the elimination of all unneces- sary fatigue, and for adequate rest for overcom- ing necessary fatigue. Such study is imperative in the work with cripples, since the greatest of care must be taken that the maimed worker is not over-taxed.1 i See “ Fatigue Study,” Sturgis & Walton, New York.