Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

UNITS, METHODS AND DEVICES 37 not only is the measurement more accurate than it could possibly be through any other method, but also the records are so complete, permanent, and accessible that they may be studied at any time and place by any one. The advantages of this in standardising work, and most especially in teaching workers, are obvious. The result of measurement, as outlined above, is standards synthesised from measured ultimate units of the workers’ manual motions. Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Director of the Phila- delphia Department of Public Works, in Bulletin 5 of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- ment of Teaching, created for the word “ stand- ard ” a definition which is itself “ standard ” in the scientific management sense. He said: A standard under modern scientific management is simply a carefully thought-out method of performing a function, or carefully drawn specifications covering an implement or some article of stores or of product. The idea of perfection is not involved in standardisation. The standard method of doing anything is simply the best method that can be devised at the time the standard is drawn. Standard specifications for materials simply cover all the points of possible variation which it is pos- sible to cover at the time the specifications are drawn.