Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

40 APPLIED MOTION STUDY the ultimate units of their work may show that motions made by one of the geniuses may be found absent, and unnecessary, in the work of the other. A synthesis of the best of the units of methods of each would present a method better than any ar- rived at by the spontaneity of any one genius, no matter how great. Surely the presentation of the best method, however discovered, must be of the greatest value to all below the grade of best. Meantime, all workers are sharing in the sav- ings made possible by the elimination of waste. They are being trained in habits of least waste- ful motions, and are becoming more efficient both in their working and in their non-working hours. They learn to “ think in elementary motions,” and to submit their activities in all lines to the tests of motion and time study. The great need now is for more efficient co-op- eration, that work done by one investigator may not be needlessly repeated by another. Through such co-operation only can come the savings that will allow of refinements of the units, methods, and devices of measurement, and that will result in progress that is definite, constant, and lasting.