Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

206 APPLIED MOTION STUDY the chronocyclegraph process have a peculiar ed- ucative value that is well embodied in the follow- ing statement of a young engineer who spent some time making motion models as a part of that thor- ough training for motion and time study man which we believe so necessary: After making a number of models of motions I have changed from a scoffer to a firm believer. I believe not only in their value as an aid to the study of the psychol- ogy of motions, but also as to their educational value in the teaching of the motion study man. I consider them of the same value to the motion study man as is the model of an engine or a mechanical device to an engineer. If the engineer was to study, for in- stance, a railroad engine, and the only chance he had to study was to watch an engine going by him at express tram speed, his impression as to the mechanical work- ing of the engine would be, to say the least, vague. A motion, in itself, is intangible, but a model of a motion gives one an altogether different viewpoint, as it seems to make one see more clearly that each motion leaves a definite path, which path may be subjected to analysis. I have made motion studies since making models, and what I learned from making the models has convinced me of their value. In former motion studies which I have made, my attention was always divided, more or less equally, between the direct distance between the starting and finishing points of the motion, the equip-