2. • Work measurement can be defined as the development of a time
standard to indicate the value of a work task.
• According to a survey conducted by industrial engineering magazine
and patton consultants, inc., 95% of the manufacturing firms
responding to the survey use work measurement.
• There are various purposes for which work measurement is used.
Among these are:
Wage incentives
Estimating and job costing
Production scheduling and capacity planning
Measurement of worker performance
3. • The techniques used to determine time standards in
manufacturing include the following:
Direct time study
The use of standard data
Predetermined time standard systems
Estimates based on previous experience
Work sampling
4. • Advantages of computerized time standard
systems:
Reduction in time required by the time study analyst to set the
standard.
Greater accuracy and uniformity in the time standards.
Ease of maintaining the methods and standards file when
engineering and methods changes occur.
Elimination of the controversial performance rating step.
Time standards can often be set before the job gets into
production.
Improved manufacturing data base for PP, Scheduling, Forecasting
labor requirements, tool control, and so on.