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Work Measurement Techniques Explained

The document discusses various methods of work measurement that are used for manpower and machine planning, reducing labour costs, scheduling, budgeting, and designing incentive systems. The most commonly used methods described are time study, historical times, predetermined data, and work sampling. The time study method involves timing workers performing short, repetitive tasks over multiple cycles to determine a standard time for the task.

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Work Measurement Techniques Explained

The document discusses various methods of work measurement that are used for manpower and machine planning, reducing labour costs, scheduling, budgeting, and designing incentive systems. The most commonly used methods described are time study, historical times, predetermined data, and work sampling. The time study method involves timing workers performing short, repetitive tasks over multiple cycles to determine a standard time for the task.

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Work Measurement

Vital inputs for:


• Manpower and machine 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
Work Measurement
Standard Elemental Time (SET)
derived from a firm’s 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


worker’s time that involves 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

OT 
 x i

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

For job time AF job  1  A


ST  NT * AF
1
For time worked AFday 
1 A

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