UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY JAMAICA

FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND LIBERAL STUDIES

SCHOOL OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS

LECTURER: MR. COURTNEY PALMER

STUDENT: RYAN BONNER, 1203323

DATE GIVEN: OCTOBER 14, 2019 DATE EXPECTEED: OCTOBER 16, 2019
 QUESTION

The student’s arm of the Industrial Technology Educator’s Association of Jamaica

(ITEAJ), Utech’s Chapter, promotes its development seminars by mailing thousands of

individually typed letters to various firms. A time study has been done on the task of preparing

letters for mailing. On the basis of the observation in Table 3, ITEAJ wants to develop a time

standard for the task. The associations personal, delay and fatigue allowance factor is 15%.

Table 3. Cycle times for preparing letters

Cycle observed times (in

minutes)

Job element 1 2 3 4 5 Performance Rating

a) Type letter 6 8 7 21* 11 120 %

b) Type envelope
address 3 4 3 1 2 105%
c) Stuff, stamp, seal
and sort envelopes
3 1 6* 3 1 110%

a) Compute the normal time for Job element b?

b) Compute the standard time for the job?

Solution:

A) Since part A requires us to find the normal time, we need to use the following equation

provided in class:

Normal time for element B = Average cycle time x (percentage rating/ 100)

Since the Percentage rating = 105%/100

= 1.05

3+4+3+1+2
And the average cycle time for element B = 5

13
= 5

= 2.6 mins

Hence:

Normal time for element B= (2.6)(1.05) = 2.73 mins

B) To find the standard time for the Job, we were given the following equation:

𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒

Standard time = 1−𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟

- The associations personal, delay and fatigue allowance factor is 15%. (given)

- To find the total normal time, we have to find the normal time of each job element

using the following formula:

o Normal time for element = Average cycle time x (percentage rating/ 100)

o We already the normal time for B, so we just need to find A and C

Normal time for element A = Average cycle time for element A x (percentage rating for A/ 100)

6+8+7+21+11
average cycle time for element A = 5

53
= 5

= 10.6 mins

Percentage rating = 120/100 = 1.2

Normal time for element A = 10.6 x 1.2 = 12.72 mins

Normal time for element C = Average cycle time for element A x (percentage rating for A/ 100)

3+1+6+3+1
average cycle time for element C = 5

14
= 5

= 2.8 mins

Percentage rating = 110/100 = 1.1

Normal time for element C = 2.8 x 1.1 = 3.08 mins

Hence; the Total normal time = Normal time for element A + B + C

= 12.72 + 2.73 + 3.08

= 18.53 mins

Now we can find the Standard time:

 18.53
Standard time = 1−0.15

18.53
= 0.85

= 21.8 mins

Note, The values from the table with an asterick should be excluded from the calculations