Time & Motion Study - Background

            The first industry recognized time study used for process improvement was in 1881 by Fredrick Taylor in the machine shop of Midvale Steel Company in Philadelphia. Tools used for that study were stopwatch and paper.

That was over 125 years ago. But the method still remains the same even today.

It still requires watching time from a stop watch, hand entry of observed elements, calculations to be done manually, hand transferring of timed results and a manual critique of obtained data.

Today a constant increase in productivity has become essential even for mere survival of any industry. As such Time and Motion Study finds a place for itself in companies of all sizes and over the period the dependence on Timestudy has grown only.

It is ironic that a procedure designed to analyze and change time, does not change over time itself.