Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Frederick W. Taylor
-1881, he started to develop time study
History of Motion and
Time Study
• Used Separately
• Became interrelated
History of Motion Study
• Bricklaying
• Tools Used
– Motion camera
History of Time Study
• Started at a machine shop
• home with his family
• Tools
– Stopwatch & Clipboard
Tools Used Today…….
• Computers
• Bar codes
• Accustudy Software
Details of Motion and
Time Study
• Motion Study
– Improve methods
– It measures distance, or how much you
move to do a job, and how much you get
done in a period of time
• Time study
– Establish standards
– Looked at the average time it took an
average worker
Computing Standards
• Estimating
• Performance records
• Stopwatch time study
• Standard data
• Time study formulas
• Work sampling schedules
• Queuing theory
How to use Motion and Time
Study in your Organization
• Manufacturing
• Office
• Banks
• Department Stores
• Hospitals
How do you decide if you need
to do a Motion and Time Study
• Problem
Cooper Hospital/University
Medical Center
• Tools Used
– Bar-coding system
– Computer
Other
– Determining the busiest time of the day
– Establishing categories
Real World Example A
Company Using Time Study
Cooper Hospital/University
Medical Center
• Discoveries
– Majority of calls were for appointments
– Many calls from outside sources for job
verification
Results Continued…..
• Implementations
– New systems
– New positions
– Improving service and costs
Motion and Time Study
Problem