Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

AS AN INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITY 43 twenty-four boxes in forty seconds, she did twenty-four in twenty seconds, with less effort. Similar studies have cut down the motions not only of men and women in other trades but also of surgeons, of nurses, of office workers; in fact, of workers in every type of work studied. Motion study consists of dividing work into the most fundamental elements possible; studying these elements separately and in relation to one another; and from these studied elements, when timed, building methods of least waste. To cite a specific example: The assembly of a machine is the piece of work under considera- tion. The existing method of assembling the ma- chine is recorded in the minutest detail. Each element of the assembly is then tested,— the method used in handling the element being com- pared with other possible methods. In this way, the most efficient elements of an assembly are de- termined ; and these elements are combined into a method of assembly that, because it is the result of actual measurement, is worthy to become a standard. Such an assembly is that of the braider, manufactured by the New England Butt Company. As a result of motion studies made