Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

180 APPLIED MOTION STUDY There can be no doubt, when one thinks the matter over carefully and logically, that the greatest good to all concerned can come only when every process possible is reduced to a habit. Methods must be standardised, that is, the best possible method must be found, prescribed, and become habitual with every worker doing the work. This is the first requirement. The sec- ond is that the element of interest be added to the work and be so incorporated that the work be never done without interest. This interest element may be added 1. By making the work itself interesting. 2. By making the results of the work interest- ing, so that the mind dwells on the results while the work is being done; that is to say, the interest may become part of the work either directly or indirectly. The great means, in Scientific Management, by which work is standardised and interest added to it is motion study. The close relations between motion study and standardisation is based largely upon an appreciation by motion study of the im- portance of habit. Motion study starts always with an analysis of practice, and practice is only