Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

12 APPLIED MOTION STUDY purpose for which it is needed. A third is a lack of channels for direct and easy communication of ideas. This is being supplied both through or- ganisations and publications. A fourth is the former lack of standardising bodies or bureaus, a lack which is also being supplied as the demand for such bodies increases. Because of the highly specialised nature of much present-day work, few of us realise how widespread, almost universal, the lack of stand- ardisation is. It is only necessary to turn, however, to such a field of activity as surgery, which engages the attention of some of the finest brains in the country, and which is apt to come, sooner or later in some way, into the field of ex- perience of every one, to see a striking object lesson of lack of standardisation both of tools and of method. It is the work of scientific management to in- sist on standardisation in all fields, and to base such standardisation upon accurate measure- ment. Scientific management is not remote, or different from other fields of activity. For ex- ample, in the handling of the materials element, it does not attempt to discard the methods of