Method study

Method study

1. Frank Gilbreth

   • the founder of method study
     • systematic and critical analysis
       • motions were necessary

2. Method study in job desing

   • Examine those facts critically
   • Install the new method
   • Maintain the method
   • Record all the relevant facts
   • Develop the most practical
   • Select the work to be studied

3. Selecting the work to be studied

   • most return on the investment of the time
   • be worth studying activities which
     • may soon be discontinued
     • only performed occasionally
   • seem to offer the greatest scope for improvement

4. Recording the present method

   • record the sequence of activities
   • record the time interrelationship
   • record the path of movement of some part
   • process mapping
     • give a far greater insight
     • evaluate it critically
     • criticizing it in detail

5. Examining the facts

   • most important stage in method study
     • ques- tioning technique
   • Questions
     • The purpose
       • What is done?
       • ● Why is it done?
       • ● What else could be done?
       • What should be done?
     • The place
       • Where is it done?
       • ● Where else could it be done?
       • ● Why is it done there?
       • ● Where should it be done?
     • The sequence
       • ● When is it done?
       • ● When should it be done?
       • ● Why is it done then?
     • The person who does the activity
       • ● Who does it?
       • ● Who else could do it?
       • ● Who should do it?
       • ● Why does that person do it?
     • The means
       • ● How is it done?
       • ● Why is it done in that way?
       • ● How else could it be done?
       • ● How should it be done?

6. Developing a new method

   • eliminate parts of the activity altogether
   • combine elements together
   • change the sequence of events
   • simplify the activity to reduce the work content

7. Install the new method and regularly maintain it

   • project managing
   • monitor regularly

8. Basic times

   • building blocks
   • time study

9. Time study

   • observing and measuring the time taken
   • adjusting, or ‘normalizing’, each observed time
   • averaging the adjusted times

10. Step 1

    • Observing, measuring and rating

11. Step 2

    • Adjusting the observed times

12. Step 3

    • Average the basic times

13. Standard times

    • Allowances
      • additions to the basic time