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Work Measurement Techniques Overview

Work measurement involves collecting time data to set production standards for tasks. The most common methods are time study, where workers are directly observed; historical times from past studies; and predetermined data from published sources. Time study breaks tasks into elements with standard times. Those elements can be reused from a company's database or published sources like Method-Time Measurement tables. Work sampling estimates time spent on different activities like unavoidable delays or various jobs for non-repetitive tasks. Standard time accounts for normal time plus allowances for delays.

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Work Measurement Techniques Overview

Work measurement involves collecting time data to set production standards for tasks. The most common methods are time study, where workers are directly observed; historical times from past studies; and predetermined data from published sources. Time study breaks tasks into elements with standard times. Those elements can be reused from a company's database or published sources like Method-Time Measurement tables. Work sampling estimates time spent on different activities like unavoidable delays or various jobs for non-repetitive tasks. Standard time accounts for normal time plus allowances for delays.

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  • Introduction to Work Measurement
  • Time Study
  • Standard Elemental Time and Predetermined Time Standards
  • Work Sampling Method
  • Observed, Normal, and Standard Times

Work Measurement

Vital inputs for:


Manpower planning Reducing labour costs Scheduling Budgeting Designing incentive systems

Standard Time
Amount of time a qualified worker should spend to complete a specified task, working at sustainable rate, using given methods, tools and equipment, raw material and workplace

Most commonly used methods of work measurement:


Time study Historical times Predetermined data Work sampling

Work Measurement
Time Study
Most widely used method of work measurement Especially appropriate for short, repetitive tasks
Average of a few properly trained workers performed time are taken as the standard

Basic steps: Define the task to be studied, and inform the worker(s) who will be studied Determine the number of cycles to be observed Time the job and rate the performance Compute the standard time

Breakdown of work into elements

Work Measurement
Standard Elemental Time (SET)
derived from a firms own historical time study data
A time study department accumulates a file of elemental times that are common to many jobs After a certain point, many elemental times can be retrieved from the file Eliminate need for analysts to go through a complete time study to obtain those

Predetermined Time Standards (PDTS)


published data on standard elemental times
Commonly used system is Method-Time Measurement (MTM) MTM tables are based on extensive research of basic elemental times

Work Measurement
Work Sampling
is a technique for estimating the proportion of time that a worker or machine spends on various activities and the idle time.

appropriate for long, non-repetitive tasks Two primary uses:


Ratio-delay studies: concern the percentage of workers time that involves unavoidable delays Analysis of non-repetitive jobs: percentage of time an employee spends doing various jobs

Work Measurement
Observed Time (OT): simply the average of the recorded times

x OT n

Normal Time (NT): observed time adjusted for worker performance

NT OT * PR
Standard Time (ST): normal time required for a job plus
an allowance time for different delays

ST NT * AF

For job time For time worked

AF job 1 A
AFday 1 1 A

Work Measurement Vital inputs for: • Manpower planning • Reducing labour costs • Scheduling • Budgeting • Designing i
Work Measurement Time Study • Most widely used method of work measurement • Especially appropriate for short, repetitive t
Standard Elemental Time (SET) Work Measurement derived from a firm’s own historical time study data • A time study depart
Work Sampling Two primary uses: • Ratio-delay studies: concern the percentage of worker’s time that involves unavoida
Work Measurement Observed Time (OT): simply the average of the recorded times n x OT i   Normal Time (NT): observed time

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