Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

42 APPLIED MOTION STUDY guidance, better placement, and better working conditions have become subjects for serious con- sideration in all parts of this country and of the world. Savings in human energy are result- ing from these investigations, but the greatest saving in time, in money, and in energy will re- sult when the motions of every individual, no matter what his work may be, have been studied and standardised. Such studies have already been made in many trades, and have resulted in actual savings that prove that the results of the practice confirm the theory. In laying brick, the motions used in lay- ing a single brick were reduced from eighteen to five,— with an increase in output of from one hundred and twenty brick an hour to three hun- dred and fifty an hour and with a reduction in the resulting fatigue. In folding cotton cloth, twenty to thirty motions were reduced to ten or twelve, with the result that instead of one hun- dred and fifty dozen pieces of cloth, four hundred dozen were folded, with no added fatigue. The motions of a girl putting paper on boxes of shoe polish were studied. Her methods were changed only slightly, and where she had been doing