IE 259

WORK STUDY
RECORDING AND ANALYSIS TOOL

ENGR. NINNA S. OCAMPO, MBA, PIE

Recording and Analysis Tools

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Process Chart Standard Symbols
A small circle denotes operation. This indicate the main steps in the process, method or
procedure. Usually the part, material or product concerned is modified or changed
during the operation.

A small rectangle denotes inspection. This indicate inspection for quality and/check for
quantity.

An arrow denotes transport. It indicates movement of workers, materials or equipment

from place to place.

D denotes temporary storage or delay. It indicates delay in the sequence of events.

Example: Work waiting between consecutive operations or material is laid aside
temporarily without record until required.

An inverted triangle denotes permanent storage. Indicates a controlled stage in which

material is received into or issued from a store under some form of authorization or an
item is retained for reference purposes.
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 Process Chart
Standard
Symbols Sample
Activities

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Process Chart Non-Standard Symbols
A circle within a circle denotes that a record was created.

A line inside a circle denotes that an Information was added to a record.

A decision was made.

A circle within a square denotes combined activities. This is used when desired to show
activities performed at the same time by the same operative workstation – combined
operation and inspection.

A circle within an arrow denotes another combined activity. This is used operation and
transportation took place simultaneously.
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Operation Process Chart (OPC)
• Shows chronological order sequence of all operations, inspections, time
allowance, materials used in the process, from the arrival to the
packaging of finished goods.

• Two symbols are used – circle and square.

• Vertical Lines indicates general flow of the process as work is

accomplished.

• Horizontal Lines feeds to the vertical flow indicating material

(purchased or WIP)
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 Operation
Process
Chart (OPC)

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FLOW PROCESS CHART(FPC)
• Requires the use of the five (5)-standard
symbol in greater detail than the OPC.

• Write description the event of each of the

process and connect the symbols with the
succeeding event using a vertical line

• Distance and time is also recorded

• 3 Types
• Worker
• Material
• Equipment
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FLOW DIAGRAM
• Representation of the layout of floors and buildings, showing all location of activities
in the flow process chart

• Identify each activity by symbols and numbers on how they appear in FPC.

• Direction of Flow is denoted by arrows along the flow lines.

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FLOW DIAGRAM
FLOW CHART
• Used to manage, analyze, design a process in many
different fields.
• Useful tool in step-by-step approach to problem solving.
• A type of diagram that represents a workflow or process.

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STRING DIAGRAM
• Recording and examining movement of workers

• Scale plan or model on which a thread is used to

trace or measure the path of worker, materials, or
equipment used in the operation.

• The thread must be measured before and after the

activity as this will represent the scales.

• Different colored threads can be used to

differentiate the workers, materials and/or
equipment.
TRAVEL CHART
• Used for complex movement patterns

• It is a square where each squares represents

workstation.

• Squares on top represents the place “From

Where”

• Squares from the left side represents station

from where the movement is made.

• Also know as FROM-TO-CHART

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MULTIPLE ACTIVITY CHART
• This is used to study, analyze and improve the workstation at a time and shows the exact time
relationship between the working cycle of the worker and the operating cycle of the machine.

• These can lead to fuller utilization of both the worker and the machine time, and a better
balance of the work cycle.

• Use separate vertical columns or bars to represent the activities of different operatives or
machines against a common time scale.

• This helps rearrange activities so that ineffective is reduced.

• This also identifies the number of machines simultaneously handled by an operator.

MULTIPLE ACTIVITY CHART
GANG PROCESS CHART
• An adaptation of the worker and machine chart.
• This shows the exact relationship between the idle and operating cycles of
the machines and the idle and operating cycles of the worker who
services the machine.
• This chart reveals possibilities for improvement by reducing the idle
operator time and idle machine time.
PRESENT METHOD:
IDLE TIME:
= 2.30 man-minute per cycle X 8 hours
= 18.4 man-hours per 8-hr day

PROPOSED METHOD
IDLE TIME:
=0.32 man-minute per cycle x 8 hours
=2.56 man-hours per 8-hr day

REDUCTION OF 15.84 hour per shift