Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

16 APPLIED MOTION STUDY stantly immediate as well as ultimate results, and present as well as future savings. Investigations of scientific management have, therefore, been made to pay from the start in money savings, as well as in savings of energy of all kinds. We note this in the results of motion study, fatigue study, and the accompanying time study. As an example, take the laboratory investiga- tions in motion study. These, where possible, are made by us in the laboratory, which is a room specially set apart in the plant for research pur- poses. Here the worker to be studied, with the necessary apparatus for doing the work and for measuring the motions, and the observer, investi- gate the operation under typical laboratory con- ditions. The product of this is data that are more nearly accurate than could be secured with the distractions and many variables of shop condi- tions. The by-product of this work, which is a typical by-product of engineer-scientists’ work, is that the conditions of performing the opera- tion in the laboratory become a practical work- ing model of what the shop conditions must ulti- mately be. When the best method of doing the work with the existing apparatus has been de-