Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

18 APPLIED MOTION STUDY also, and does, wherever permitted, provide for co-operation among conservers. It does this by: 1. Demonstrating the enormous waste resulting from needless repetition of the same investigation. 2. Providing standards which must be recognised as worthy of adoption, since they are the results of measurement. 3. Emphasising the importance of teaching and of the transference of skill, which depend upon co- operation. 4. Showing that maintenance depends, in the final analysis, upon co-operation. We have formulated our programme for such co-operation into the following stages: 1. Each individual to apply scientific management to his own activities, individual and social. 2. Groups, such as industrial organisations, to apply scientific management to the group activity. 3. Trades to apply scientific management to the trade activity. This includes, ultimately, a reclassifica- tion and standardization of the trades, such as we have advocated in “ Motion Study.” 1 The trades must be classified according to the amount of skill involved in the motions used, and must then be standardized in order that the necessary training for succeeding in them can be given. 4. Industries to apply scientific management to the i D. Van Nostrand Company, New York, pages 94-103.