Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

172 APPLIED MOTION STUDY tion of the working equipment itself; use gravity; wherever possible consider effect of direction of motion on momentum and inertia; and, finally, make an intensive study of the motions being used, in order to derive and standardise more effi- cient and less fatiguing motions. We gather the existing devices into a little group called a museum, and add photographs of devices that might supply needs, taken from other places. We co-operate with the Posture League and the Safety First people, and other existing organisa- tions that lessen the amount of pioneer work necessary to be done. We also attack the prob- lem of work intervals and rest intervals, their length and their relation to one another. Along with this we start the Home Reading Box,1 which is a method of putting literature of all kinds in the hands of all members of the or- ganisation interested. This is a means of mak- ing the rest, or the recovery, periods more effi- cient. All of these things have been done, and are being done, and along with this we are to-day making intensive study of activity and its re- sulting fatigue. These studies are made by the i See “ Fatigue Study,” Chap. IV.