Internal relations of elemental motions within a task

Abstract

For micro-motion samples of an industrial operation (taken 8 times a day for 5 days) average times of individual elements were correlated. "If production is to remain constant, variations in time of the individual elements must be and are compensated for by either an increase or decrease in the time of the other elements which compose the cycle… . The results… provide evidence that the elements are related. The removal of one because of its undesirability may well be reflected in other elements. An atomistic concept of human behavior appears to ignore too much when considering motion economy." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)