Fatigue study : $b the elimination of humanity's greatest unnecessary waste. A first step in motion studyGilbreth, Lillian Moller
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Fatigue study : $b the elimination of humanity's greatest unnecessary waste. A first step in motion study
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller
Fatigue; Industrial efficiency; Motion study
The colleges can help in a second way by making fatigue study a subject
in the curriculum. It is not necessary that this be a new subject. It
should rather be a new aspect in which the old subjects are presented.
Especially in the colleges of engineering and business administration
great emphasis should be laid upon fatigue study, both the theory and
the practice. It is not essential that the students be sent out into
the shops for actual practice in such study, although anything like the
half-time plan is to be commended. The student may well apply fatigue
study to his own activities. This will present an admirable field and a
splendid incentive. After such a study the fatigue problem will never
again seem remote or vague to the student. Also the student may well be
sent, or taken, on tours of inspection through neighbouring industries,
or may be allowed to co-operate in preliminary fatigue surveys. They
should learn the general principle of fatigue study, and should become
finger-wise. This preparation is identical to that for making motion
study, and, in fact, is prerequisite or first step for greatest success
in any managerial work.
But the college should not confine its activity in fatigue elimination
to the museum, and to training the student who expects to enter the
field. They should themselves become examples of successful fatigue
elimination. In this way they can do most to cut down waste, and to
train our young people to take an active part later in the waste
elimination campaign being waged in the world’s work.
The Work of the Manager.
The fatigue study and the installation which must follow it to be
done by the manager have been outlined in this book. The manager who
has put his own plant at such a stage of improvement that unnecessary
fatigue is cut out to a great extent, and that recovery from necessary
fatigue is provided for, has contributed greatly to the cause, but his
work should not end here. He should educate those with whom he comes
in contact on the subject of fatigue elimination. He should co-operate
with those in his own neighbourhood, and also with those in his own
trade towards solving the fatigue problem peculiar to the locality or
the trade.
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