WORK MEASUREMENT

INTRODUCTION
 Definition
 Qualified worker

-intelligence
-education
-necessary skills
 PROCEDURE

• Three stages
 Analysis

 Measurement

 Synthesis
 USES

 Compare the efficiency of alternative methods

 Balance the work of members of teams

 Number of machines an worker can run

 Provide information on which the planning and
scheduling of production
 Set standards of machine utilization and labor
performance
 PURPOSE

 To schedule work and allocate capacity.

 To provide an objective basis for motivating the
workforce and measuring workers' performance.
 To bid for new contracts and to evaluate
performance on existing ones.
 To provide benchmarks for improvement.
TECHNIQUES OF WORK MEASUREMENT

 STOPWATCH TIME STUDY

 HISTORICAL TIMES
 PREDETERMINED MOTION TIME SYSTEM
 WORK SAMPLING OR ACTIVITY
SAMPLING OR RATIO DELAY METHOD
Time Study

 Development of a time standard based on

observations of one worker taken over a
number of cycles.
 The basic steps in a time study:
 Define the task to be studied
 Determine the number of cycles to observe
 Time the job
 Compute the standard time
HISTORICAL DATA

 The systematic collection and objective

evaluation of data related to past occurrences in
order to test hypothesis
 Shows actual time to complete a task
PREDETERMINED MOTION /TIME SYSTEMS

 Is a database of basic motion elements and their

associated normal time values, together with a set
of procedures for applying the data to analyze
manual tasks and establish standard times for the
tasks.
WORK SAMPLING
 Technique for estimating the proportion of time
that a worker or machine spends on various
activities and idle time.
 Work sampling involves making brief observations
of a worker or machine at random intervals
 Work sampling does not require

timing an activity
continuous observation of an activity
 CASE STUDY
 Synopsis of the case