The objectives of the twelfth edition have remained the same as for the eleventh: to provide a practical, up-to-date college textbook describing engineering methods to measure, analyze, and design manual work. The importance of ergonomics and work design as part of methods engineering is emphasized, not only to increase productivity, but also to improve worker health and safety and thus company bottom-line costs. Far too often, industrial engineers have focused solely on increasing productivity through methods changes and job simplification, resulting in overly repetitive jobs for the operators and increased incidence rates of musculoskeletal injuries. Any cost reductions obtained are more than offset by the increased medical and worker's compensation costs, especially considering today's ever-escalating health care costs.
A new Chapter 8 on workplace and systems safety has been added that includes material on accident causation models, accident prevention, quantitative analyses, and general hazard control. This then completes the knowledge that a basic industrial engineer should have for managing a production line or a service center.
In the twenty-first century, it is essential that the industrial engineer consider both productivity issues and their effects on the health and safety of the worker. This comprehensive text addresses this need by integrating the traditional elements of motion and time study along with human factors and ergonomics and safety engineering.
Few of the books on the market are formatted for use in the classroom setting. This text includes additional questions, problems, and sample laboratory exercises to assist the educator. Finally, no text provides the extensive amount of online student and instructor resources, electronic forms, current information, and changes as this edition does.
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