Need advise on creating a time study/work measurement
Need advise on creating a time study/work measurement
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I'm working on developing a time study/work measurement of the job activities of our warehouse personnel. We need to develop the methodolgy so that we ensure our results are not biased.... Does anyone have a standard methodolgy they could share???





RE: Need advise on creating a time study/work measurement
Suggestion of checklist:
Purpose and targets to be defined
Timeframe to be decided both for initial check and later rechecks and and development checks
Timeframe and type of for actions to result from checks
One practical methode for the analysis often used is defining all actions to be analyzed (example for warehose: packing of goods, picking items, registering of sending data etc. etc), then registering all people involved in these actions, then establish a mathematical 'non systematic ' (numbers out of hat or existing tabels for this purpose) time list used to visit and check the activities of each single person at that time.
The idea is that this repeated a sufficient amount of times and summed for each activity will give a 'neutral and statistical' picture of the work distribution.
If improvements are the purpose of the analysis the more direct (Scandinavian) approach could give better results in all aspects: ask the employees directly, either to evaluate their time distribution themselves, or to give their three to five suggestions on what single changes they thought would give the best gain to the process and company within their activity area.
RE: Need advise on creating a time study/work measurement
Other wise there was more or less sample prejudice. (Remember the classic GE study with light levels.)
I once worked for a manager who would go out and set standards. He would go out and work like crazy for ten minutes in a perfectly prepared work station, count the results and call that the standard. No one ever met the standard which proved to him how superioe he was over the “hourlies”.
Sometimes you learn much more from bad managers than good ones.
Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
www.carbideprocessors.com
RE: Need advise on creating a time study/work measurement
It's imperative to carry out time study without the knowledge of the subject. a mezzanine would have helped.
RE: Need advise on creating a time study/work measurement
RE: Need advise on creating a time study/work measurement
Regards,
From Murphy's Laws:
To estimate the time it takes to do something, take the amount of time it would take YOU to do it, multiply by 2 and raise it to the next higher unit of measurement.
RE: Need advise on creating a time study/work measurement