Industrial Engineering- Work Measurement
By using appropriate measurement techniques to the situation, work measurement enables us to establish the time that any specified activity or process can be completed in at a defined level of activity.
Why do we need to measure?
- Without the knowledge of how long every activity takes how can we hope to operate in an effective manner, particularly as modern organisations become increasingly more and more complex
- If we hope to be able to plan, whether for the long term or on a day to day basis we need reliable time information for such things as:
- The appropriate level of workforce
- The appropriate amount of plant and equipment
- The necessary space
- The scheduling of work and activities on a day to day basis
- Meeting delivery deadlines etc
Time Study
One of the major techniques in work measurement is Time Study:
“The application of techniques designed to establish the time for a qualified worker to carry out a task at a defined rate of working”
In ordinary language what does this mean?
It means that by using a measurement technique appropriate to the situation, work measurement enables us to establish the time that any specified activity or process can be completed in, at a defined level of activity.
Other Industrial Engineering Techniques
- ABC Analysis
- Analytical Estimating
- Benchmarking
- Build-to-Order
- Continuous Improvement
- Kaizen
- Lean Manufacture
- Method Study
- Pareto Analysis
- Pre-determined Motion-Time Systems (PMTS)
- Process Charts
- Process Mapping
- Rating
- Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM)
- Six Sigma
- Synthetics
- SMED
- Time Study
- Total Productive Maintenance
- Value Engineering
- Work Measurement