Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 173 chronocyclegraph method, and by making Simul- taneous Motion Cycle Charts as a result of micro- motion study. Work in this line has received a great impetus through the work being done for soldiers, crippled in all countries through the great war. With the peculiar type that will now come in enormous numbers into the industries, the fatigue problem becomes more than ever im- portant. Where the old problem was to make it possible to do more work the new problem is, often, to make it possible to do any work at all. As for future work to be done upon fatigue, it will lie along the same lines as the past and pres- ent development. It must be realised that fatigue is no.problem that can be solved by hit or miss methods. Some- thing, and a great deal better than nothing, can be done by any method of eliminating fatigue. Rest periods, no matter though they be not of the right length or scientifically distributed, are bene- ficial. Chairs, though not scientifically con- structed, are far better than no chairs at all. We have received recently most helpful and construct- ive criticism from a professor interested in pos- ture, who says that the average working chair