Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

AS AN INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITY 49 scribed, and to enjoy doing it, but, also, to allow of at least enough profit to the management to cover the cost of the investigations that resulted in the standard. The quality of the output is maintained through a new type of inspection, which con- siders not only the output itself, but the ele- ments,— material and human,— which result in that output. Nothing is a higher guarantee of quality than insistence on a standard method. Along with the laboratory investigations from which motion study standards are derived, goes a general campaign to arouse every individual in the organisation to think in terms of elements of motions. Such simple office equipment as pen- cil holders are motion studied, and every member of the organisation is encouraged to observe and record his own motions in performing the most elementary of operations. Motion study may be carried on with no devices, and every one is ex- pected to know how to make at least the preliminary investigations. In this way, the spirit of motion economy grows throughout the entire plant, with a consequent elimination of waste motions and a growing interest in