Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 19 entire industry, with co-operation between the va- rious trades involved. 5. A national bureau of standardization to collect and formulate the data from all the industries into na- tional standards. 6. An international bureau of standardization to col- lect national standards and to work for interna- tional co-operation. America’s immediate industrial position de- pends upon America’s realisation of the need for conservation, as demonstrated by scientific man- agement, and upon America’s use of such means of conservation as scientific management offers. America’s ultimate industrial position depends upon America’s realisation that the highest type of conservation includes co-operation. Individuals, groups, trades, and industries have realised and are realising more and more, daily, that it is for the good of all that common practice be standardised and that improvements take place from the highest common standard. Nations have not yet come to any great realisa- tion that this same principle applies to interna- tional relationships. If America desires to gain and maintain leader- ship in industrial progress, she must be the ad-