Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

26 APPLIED MOTION STUDY floor, up elevators and to its final resting-place, and who should perform each operation. Often the route man is able to simplify greatly the path of the materials, especially on large or- ders, by a rearrangement or routing of the ma- chinery. We have had one case in our experi- ence where it was cheaper, in a woodworking shop, to have the machinery placed on heavy pieces not attached to the floor, each machine op- erated by an individual motor, and to move the machinery, in order to accommodate the pecu- liarities of sequence of events of each particular order, when the order was large enough to war- rant moving the machinery. The route man’s duties, also, oftentimes involve determining a new path, ordering that machinery not used be re- moved, so that he can route his material by a more economical method. After he has deter- mined the exact path by which the material shall be routed, he embodies his conclusions into pro- cess charts, route charts, and route sheets; these illustrate his orders graphically and chronologi- cally and are worked out in detail by the in- struction card department. Instruction Cards.— It must not be supposed