Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

56 APPLIED MOTION STUDY done could, instead, be devoted to original work, that is sadly needed. It is the work of the United States Government to establish such a Bureau of Standardisation of Mechanical Trades. The standards there de- rived and collected would be public property, and original investigators could invent from these standards upwards. Most important of all, per- haps, these standards would furnish the ideal means for teaching or transferring skill to the young workers who desire to enter a trade. The reclassification of the trades and the Bureau of Standardisation are, then, the two great needs for motion study development. But these will come only when the individuals inter- ested apply motion study to their own work, and show willingness to co-operate with others. The industrial opportunity afforded by motion study is not, then, some great future opportunity of which we dream, or some remote and inaccessi- ble opportunity for which we must collectively strive. It is an opportunity ready, here and now, to be grasped by each one of us individually,— and it is the greatest industrial opportunity that this century affords.