Fatigue study

In “Motion Study” we stated: “There is no waste of any kind in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.”[1] It is an aspect of waste...

The survey is a _systematic_ study of existing conditions. Those making it have always a well-defined plan in mind. It is necessary, in order to maintain a proper balance for th...

The first necessity in our fight against fatigue is to eliminate the causes of unnecessary fatigue. The second is to provide for proper rest to overcome fatigue, whether necessa...

3. A system by which the reading matter gathered in the homes is taken to the plant reading box, is taken from the plant box to the homes of the workers, and, in turn, either re...

It is not necessary to have a scientific knowledge of motion study, physiology, and psychology, or even of hygiene, in order to make preliminary, anti-fatigue improvements in wo...

A fatigue museum is a collection of devices for and information concerning the elimination of fatigue, or for affording rest for overcoming fatigue. Its purpose is to serve as a...

Accurate fatigue measurement is in its infancy as applied to the industries. Such measurement can take place only where there is complete co-operation between the man measured a...

In order to make plain exactly how changes are made and take place from the condition before analysis, measurement, and synthesis are made to the standard method of doing the wo...

We will now assume that the reader has attacked the fatigue problem in his particular plant, and has applied either preliminary or more permanent fatigue elimination. There are...

It should be the work of the colleges to gather together what has been done in fatigue elimination, and to put it at the disposal of all interested. Each college should start a...