Overview & What's NewFaced with increasing global competition, every industry, business, and service organization is restructuring itself to operate more efficiently. Cost-effectiveness and optimized work design are the keys to successful activity in business, industry, and government, and is the end result of methods engineering.
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.
Key Features:
* Provides a practical, up-to-date text describing engineering methods to measure, analyze, and design manual work.
* Emphasizes both the manual components and the cognitive aspects of work, recognizing manufacturing sector decline and service sector growth.
* Emphasizes the importance of ergonomics, work design, and safety as part of methods engineering to increase productivity, improve worker health and safety, reducing bottom-line costs.Changes in the 12th edition:
* A new Chapter 8 on workplace and systems safety includes material on accident causation, accident prevention, quantitative analysis and hazard control.
* Chapters 10 and 11 from the previous edition (Performance Rating and Allowances) have been combined as support material to the current Chapter 10 on Time Study.
* Chapter 13 on Predetermined Time Systems has been expanded to include more material on BasicMOST.
* New examples, problems and case studies have been added, including ones showing applications with the service industry. DesignTools Version 4.1.1, a ready-to-use software program for time study, work sampling, standard data, and costing, appears on the text’s website. Included are QuikSamp and QuikTS, software programs to be loaded on a Palm PDA device (m105 or higher) for collection of work sampling and time study data. The data can then be uploaded directly to the time study form on DesignTools for easy and accurate calculation of standard time.
The book website at offers various online resources such as an updated instructor's manual and links to an author hosted website which provides even more material, including electronic versions of the forms used in the textbook, practice exams and solutions for students.
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