Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

MOTION STUDY AND TIME STUDY 61 started. However, in order to make a great and lasting success of this work, one must have studied motions and measured them until his eye can follow paths of motions and judge lengths of motions, and his timing sense, aided by silent rhythmic counting, can estimate times of motion with surprising accuracy. Sight, hearing, touch, and kinesthetic sensations must all be keenly de- veloped. With this training and equipment, a motion- and time-study expert can obtain prelim- inary results without devices, that, to the un- trained or the uninformed, seem little short of astounding. When the operation has received its preliminary revision and is ready for the accu- rate measurements that lead to actual standard- isation and the teaching that follows, devices of precise measurement become imperative for meth- ods of least waste that will stand the test of time. Early workers in time study made use of such well-known devices as the clock, the watch, the stop-watch, and various types of stop-watches at- tached to a specially constructed board or imita- tion book. Through the use of these it became possible to record short intervals of time, subject of course, always to the personal error. The ob-