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    Work measurement is essential for planning, control, and costing operations as it provides data on production capacity, rates, labor efficiency, and costs. The objectives of work measurement include establishing standards for comparing methods, staffing needs, planning and control, costing, incentives, and delivery dates. Common techniques are time study using stopwatches, work sampling observing workers, and predetermined motion times for building time estimates using basic human motions.

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    Work measurement is essential for planning, control, and costing operations as it provides data on production capacity, rates, labor efficiency, and costs. The objectives of work measurement include establishing standards for comparing methods, staffing needs, planning and control, costing, incentives, and delivery dates. Common techniques are time study using stopwatches, work sampling observing workers, and predetermined motion times for building time estimates using basic human motions.

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    Work measurement

    Work measurement is also called by the name ‘time study’. Work measurement is absolutely
    essential for both the planning and control of operations. Without measurement data, we
    cannot determine the capacity of facilities or it is not possible to quote delivery dates or costs.
    We are not in a position to determine the rate of production and also labor utilization and
    efficiency. It may not be possible to introduce incentive schemes and standard costs for budget
    control.

    Objectives of Work Measurement


    The use of work measurement as a basis for incentives is only a small part of its total
    application. The objectives of work measurement are to provide a sound basis for:
    1. Comparing alternative methods.
    2. Assessing the correct initial manning (manpower requirement planning).
    3. Planning and control.
    4. Realistic costing.
    5. Financial incentive schemes.
    6. Delivery date of goods.
    7. Cost reduction and cost control.
    8. Identifying substandard workers.
    9. Training new employees.
    Techniques of Work measurement in Production Management
    For the purpose of work measurement, work can be regarded as:
    1. Repetitive work: The type of work in which the main operation or group of operations
    repeat continuously during the time spent at the job. These apply to work cycles of
    extremely short duration.
    2. Non-repetitive work: It includes some type of maintenance and construction work, where
    the work cycle itself is hardly ever repeated identically.
    Various techniques of work measurement are:
    1. Time study (stop watch technique),
    2. Synthesis,
    3. Work sampling,
    4. Predetermined motion and time study,
    5. Analytical estimating.
    Time study and work sampling involve direct observation and the remaining are data based and
    analytical in nature.
    1. Time study: A work measurement technique for recording the times and rates of working for
    the elements of a specified job carried out under specified conditions and for analyzing the
    data so as to determine the time necessary for carrying out the job at the defined level of
    performance. In other words measuring the time through stop watch is called time study.
    2. Synthetic data:
    A work measurement technique for building up the time for a job or pans of the job at a
    defined level of performance by totaling element times obtained previously from time
    studies on other jobs containing the elements concerned or from synthetic data.
    3. Work sampling:
    A technique in which a large number of observations are made over a period of time of one
    or group of machines, processes or workers. Each observation records what is happening at
    that instant and the percentage of observations recorded for a particular activity, or delay, is
    a measure of the percentage of time during which that activities delay occurs.
    4. Predetermined motion time study (PMTS):
    A work measurement technique whereby times established for basic human motions
    (classified according to the nature of the motion and conditions under which it is made) are
    used to build up the time for a job at the defined level of performance. The most commonly
    used PMTS is known as Methods Time Measurement (MTM).
    5. Analytical estimating:
    A work measurement technique, being a development of estimating, whereby the time
    required to carry out elements of a job at a defined level of performance is estimated partly
    from knowledge and practical experience of the elements concerned and partly from
    synthetic data. The work measurement techniques and their applications are shown in the
    following table.

    Work Measurement techniques in Operations Management

    Work measurement techniques and their application

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