Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 15 of the rest required to overcome the fatigue. Those not actively interested in the industries can scarcely realise that the process of keeping the soil at its full producing capacity and of providing depleted energy is infinitely more standardised and more widely used than the process of providing that the human organism overcome fatigue and return to its normal work- ing capacity in the shortest amount of time pos- sible. Scientific provision for such recovery in the industries, before the days of scientific man- agement, was unknown. It is even more surprising that only the pio- neers in the work realise the application of any necessity for the laboratory method in the study of the human element as it appears in the indus- tries. When making accurate measurements, the number of variables involved must be reduced to as great a degree as possible. Only in the labora- tory can this be successfully done. It is fortu- nate for scientific management that its initial in- troduction in the industries has been made by engineers rather than by men who are primarily laboratory scientists, for this reason: the engineer has been forced by his training to consider con-