Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 185 natural eliminator of monotony. The close rela- tionship between fatigue study and monotony study must have become apparent. Neither problem can be successfully solved without a si- multaneous consideration and solution of the ac- companying problem. In conclusion, Scientific Management may not be ideal in theory nor perfect in practice, but all that it claims to be is management that not only is the result of measurement, but that is con- stantly willing to submit its results to measure- ment, because this is its basis. It is a part of the things that are real and lasting, and a knowl- edge of it and practice in it should be a part of the working equipment of every man or woman who wishes to take an active part in the w orld s work. It is doing much to-day that is not ap- parent. Its direct product, the comparatively few factories in which any so-called system is used and the comparatively few men who are earning their living through teaching the theory or installing the practice, are unimportant. The by-products are many and important. Men and women everywhere are realising that the remote science is really the near at hand measurement;