Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

THE EFFECT UPON THE WORKERS 203 and to enlist him as a co-worker in the motion study from the moment the first investigation is made. Our methods of making motion study are by the use of the micromotion, simultaneous mo- tion cycle chart, and chronocyclegraph methods. All make it imperative that the worker shall un- derstand what is being done and why, and make it most profitable to every one that the worker shall be able, as well as willing, to help in the work of obtaining methods of least waste by means of motion study. While the process of making motion and time studies through the use of the cinematograph, the microchronometer and the cross-sectioned screen have been so reduced in cost as to make them indispensable even from the cost standpoint, the process is made even more economical when the worker, or the observed man, does his best work, and endeavours to take a part of active initiative in deriving the motion standards. find in our practice that thø worker is only too glad to do this. In fact, it is usually he, offener than the observer, who cries out, “ Wait a moment till this is done in the best way possible,” or “Wait a moment, please, I know a way that I believe is easier.” Similarly,