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The latest version of the work system method is organized around a general problem-solving outline that includes: Identify the problem or opportunity; Identify the work system that has that problem or opportunity (plus relevant constraints and other considerations) Use the work system framework to summarize the work system; Gather relevant data.
Work Measurement and Methods Improvement. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-37089-5. Groover, Mikell (2007). Work Systems and the Methods, Measurement, and Management of Work. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-140650-6
The two techniques became integrated and refined into a widely accepted method applicable to the improvement and upgrading of work systems. This integrated approach to work system improvement is known as methods engineering [1] and it is applied today to industrial as well as service organizations, including banks, schools and hospitals. [2]
Method study is the principal technique for reducing the work involved, primarily by eliminating unnecessary movement on the part of material or operatives and by substituting good methods for poor ones. Work measurement is concerned with investigating, reducing and subsequently eliminating ineffective time, that is time during which no ...
This data and the application rules for the MTM system were refined, extended, defined, industrially tested and documented as a result of further work in later years. In 1948, Maynard, Stegemerten and Schwab published the book “Methods-Time Measurement” giving full details of the development of the MTM system and its application rules.
The work breakdown structure provides a common framework for the natural development of the overall planning and control of a contract and is the basis for dividing work into definable increments from which the statement of work can be developed and technical, schedule, cost, and labor hour reporting can be established.
A predetermined motion time system (PMTS) is frequently used to perform labor minute costing in order to set piece-rates, wage-rates or incentives in labor oriented industries by quantifying the amount of time required to perform specific tasks under defined conditions. Today the PMTS is mainly used in work measurement for shorter cycles in ...
Systems analysis tool: This is a method to conduct systematic trade-off evaluations of work-system intervention alternatives. [ 63 ] Macroergonomic analysis of structure: This method analyzes the structure of work systems according to their compatibility with unique sociotechnical aspects.