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    Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity
    Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity
    Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity
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    Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity

    By D.R. Kiran

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    Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity provides an introduction to, and practical advice on, assessing methods of working to achieve maximum output and efficiency. The main focus of the book is on the ‘work study’, which helps to increase the productivity of men, machines and materials. We are currently seeing a lot of disruptive advancement in industrial operations caused by technologies, including artificial intelligence and IoT. Against this technological backdrop, and with ever increasing focus on value, the fundamental understanding of how to analyze and organize the workplace for productivity is more important than ever.

    Case studies and illustrations throughout make this book a much have for managers with responsibility for production and planning in industry.

    • Helps the reader understand the fundamental factors affecting productivity, along with their relevance to work organization
    • Includes valuable industry case studies from sectors including manufacturing, textile production and sea port operations
    • Includes several formats and charts that are important in the recording of data for practical work studies
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateFeb 12, 2020
    ISBN9780128203927
    Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity
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    D.R. Kiran

    D.R Kiran has forty years of experience in both industry and academia. He has held a range of management positions including Planning Manager of Rallifan (CF division), World Bank Adviser/Instructor for Transport Managers in Tanzania, and the Principal of PMR Institute of Technology, Chennai. In Universities he has taught subjects including Total Quality Management, Professional Ethics and Maintenance Engineering Management. He is the author of 2 books, and numerous journal articles, and was presented with the coveted Bharat Excellence Award and Gold Medal for Excellence in Education in New Delhi in 2006.

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      Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity - D.R. Kiran

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      Chapter 1

      Introduction

      Abstract

      Increase in the productivity in all occupations is the topic of the day. This is achieved by Work Study which concentrates on organizing the work performed and developing or engineering the methods of operations. Work Study hence has a direct relationship with productivity and is referred to as the basic tool to increase productivity.

      Keywords

      Work organization; Methods engineering IS 6363; BS 3138; Method study; Work measurement; Productivity; Production objectives; Work study specialists; Penetrating tool of investigation; International labor organization; Human abilities and psychological aspects

      1.1 Work organization and methods engineering

      Work Organization and Methods Engineering is a subspecialty of industrial engineering. While Work Organization is concerned with human integration in industrial production processes by skills distribution and coordination of work tasks, Methods Engineering is the analysis and development of the method being employed in performing these tasks to achieve the objective of lowering the production costs and increasing reliability and productivity. Work study is that branch of industrial engineering, that aims at achieving both these objectives. For this reason, we use the term work study in this chapter as well as the other chapters of this book, to represent both Work Organization and Methods Engineering.

      1.2 What is work study

      Before we attempt to answer this question, let us review some of the explanatory definitions available on work study, which may possibly outline what it incorporates. It basically is a system of assessing methods of working so as to achieve the maximum output and efficiency. Work study helps to increase productivity of men, machines and materials.

      IS 6363:1972 (Glossary of terms used in work study) of the Bureau of Indian Standards, defines work study as

      Work study is a modern discipline, which analyzes and evaluates all aspects of the work system in order to enhance the effectiveness and functional efficiency.

      BS 3138:1979 (Glossary of terms used in work study) of the British Standards Institution gives a more typical and comprehensive definition, which is more an explanatory definition as

      Work-study is a generic term for those techniques, particularly of method study and work measurement, which are used in the examination of human effort in all its contexts and which leads systematically to the investigation of all factors that affect the efficiency and economy of the situation being reviewed in order to affect the improvement.

      R.H. Hammond in his chapter History and Development of Industrial Engineering in the Production Hand Book edited by Gordon Carson, refers to the Report on the Training for Work Study Practices of the Joint Industrial Training Board, which states as follows

      Work study attains its benefits through, firstly by investigation of the current situation, examining especially any apparent weaknesses, for example, the performance of an operating team or a machine group. This diagnosis is followed by the determination and the introduction of appropriate improvements in operating methods. Then investigating and review will cover operating methods, selection and usage of equipment, plant layout supply and usage of materials, availability of ancillary services like material handling, work organization, effectiveness of total operating procedures, progress control and the potential effect of the investigations on overall costs and efficiency.

      The Free dictionary defines work study as the analysis of industrial or work procedures to determine the most efficient methods of operation.

      We may cite a hoard of such explanatory definitions, which have one thing common with them - no single sentence definition can fairly and adequately explain the subject as much as the above definitions, or rather explanatory definitions do. They reveal how boundless work study can be in the day to day works in all walks of life, whatever it is a manufacturing industry or an automobile workshop, or a chemical industry or even an educational institution.

      1.3 Work study is a tool for increasing

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