Fatigue study : $b the elimination of humanity's greatest unnecessary waste. A first step in motion study

· 1924

MOTION STUDY, MICROMOTION STUDY, THE CYCLEGRAPH, AND THE CHRONOCYCLEGRAPH METHOD AS MEASURES OF ACTIVITY 118 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 wasted motions that we are discussing here. Wasted motions mean wasted effort and wasted time. One of the results of this waste is unnecessary fatigue, caused by unnecessary effort expended during time that must, as a result, be wasted. Time, a lifetime, is our principal inheritance. To waste any of it is to lose part of our principal asset. To waste time and to suffer from unnecessary fatigue simultaneously can be…

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