Work Measurement Training & Practice Videos

This superb set of three videos with a complete “User’s Kit” allows the work measurement analyst to practice, improve, and evaluate the motor-perceptual skills required to:

1. Recognize the end of a work element.
2. Read and remember the stopwatch reading.
3. Recall and record the reading.

All three videos illustrate operations with 2 elements per cycle. One of the practice videos requires the recording of a non-cyclic stock-up element. The set is housed in a deluxe vinyl album. A narrated slow-motion segment on each tape precisely describes the operation and exactly when to record the time readings. A Complete “User’s Kit” is included containing: operation element description sheets, detailed format and instruction sheets (illustrating precisely how and where to record the watch readings on the form, 3 pads of 50 special time study practice forms, and three plastic laminated overlay grading masks with the correct times. A set of instructor’s overhead transparencies is included. Each video is about 20 minutes in length and permits 4 full practice sequences before the tape needs to be rewound.

Time Study video “Sewing King Comforter Bags”

We now offer “Sewing King Comforter Bags”, a 22 minute 19 cycle video for time study practice. This video was been used as a excellent “final exam” to evaluate the trainee’s ability to conduct an entire time study. The elemental times are longer than in the set of three videos described above. The video “Kit” comes housed in a deluxe vinyl album and is complete with a pad of 50 custom time study practice forms and the author’s professional time study analysis on an 11” x 17” Excel spreadsheet.

Is time study a lost art ?

Your company can now take advantage of the materials taught in Professor Carl Lindenmeyer’s widely acclaimed 4-day seminar/workshop “Work Methods & Standards: Time study Fundamentals”. Over one-half of the first seminar day is captured on these three videotapes. This set of videos includes Video #1 and #2: Time Study Fundamentals Parts “A” and “B” along with Video #3: Equipment, Devices, and Supplies Used in Making an Engineered Work Measurement Study. Video #1 (32 minutes) and #2 (32 minutes) cover the time study basics of: the various important uses for the work standard; the different methods available to establish a time standard; how to determine if the operation is ready to study; how to break down the operation in elements; and a detailed discussion of the entire step-by-step procedure involved in making an engineering work measurement study. Video #3 (34 minutes) presents, describes, and demonstrates much of the equipment used in making a time study and the instructional materials available to assist in the training of the analyst’s motor-perceptual skill development and his/her ability to perform performance (pace) rating. (Video #1 and #2 must be purchased together)

Pace Rating: Another lost art ?
Videotape “Incentive Assembly Operations”

Pace (or Performance) Rating is the process of making trained judgement of the operator’s speed and effort during the performance of the operation. To a degree, the method is also rated, but only in terms of the operators ability to do complex and difficult motion combinations that cannot be done by a normal operator. Rating is certainly a learned art and the use of pace (performance) rating films and videos are often used to provide practice for the work measurement analyst. This video, the first in a planned series, shows six (6) scenes of assembly operations. The work is shot-cycle and is performed at an incentive pace. The performances range from 110% to below 180%. Two remarkable performances (superior skill and excessive effort) are demonstrated on the video. Each “true” rating was determined using Morrow’s synthetic rating method using 4M (computerised MTM-1) as the predetermined normal time. Each scene is shown for approximately two minutes. This allows ample time to estimate both lowest and highest possible ratings as well as a final rating judgment. Each scene is followed by a “Record Your Rating Now” title and by a title with the “true” or MTM-based synthetic rating factor. An instructional handout and documentation showing the development of the synthetic rating factors is included (18 minutes).

Activity (Work) Sampling

We can announce this totally re-done (new graphics) video. This videotape, originally developed for the hospital manager, won a first place award in the Industrial Management Society’s film competition, health care division. The activity (Work) Sampling technique involves taking a large number random observations of worker or equipment activity. From the ratio of observations in a given activity to the total observations made in the study, an estimate can be made of the percent occurrence of that activity. This video covers the technique’s definition, design methodology and procedures, sampling statistics, and reporting of results. Computer-Aided Work Sampling is briefly introduced. The viewer of this video is guided through the process of identifying those areas in his/her department where the results of an activity sampling would be useful. Many examples from the health care field are illustrated. This video has been used in the manufacturing as well as the service sector with excellent results. It is a clearly presented introductory film covering the basic fundamentals of the activity (work) sampling technique. Ten sets of a manual work sampling simulation exercise are included. This video tape makes an excellent introduction to the set of three videos described to the left. (20 minutes).

Work Sampling Fundamentals – Parts A & B + Computer Aided Work Sampling for Continuous Improvement

These three videos, (48,16 and 61 minutes respectively) are sufficient for a one-week academic course (with lab) or about three hours of practical instruction in his powerful productivity improvement technique. The “Part B” video comes with 10 sets of an excellent manual work sampling simulation exercise for hands-on “proof” that the technique works!

Productivity and the Problem-Solving Process

We can now announce our totally re-done (new graphics) video, “Productivity and the Problem-Solving Process,” a short (15 minutes) video that was produced for the health care field. In its original form, it won a first place award in the industrial Management Society’s national film competition (health care division). The contents of “Productivity and the Problem-Solving Process” is applicable to all types of business and industry, and more copies have been distributed to manufacturing than to the service industries. The video starts with a definition and examples of productivity and its components, output and input. The tape is stopped and the viewer is asked to list this output and input elements in their department and to “check” those that have good room for improvement, those that they can readily change or control, and those that are high cost items. The viewer is then been led through the problem-solving process of defining the problem, collecting appropriate data, questioning the what, where, when, who, and how of the system under study, generating creative improvements based on eliminating ; combining; changing the person, place or sequence; and improving the necessary details of the task. An example involving the improvement of an actual health care system is used to illustrate the problem-solving process. This video makes a good, short introduction for any problem-solving meeting. It comes in a deluxe vinyl album with script and a pad of forms to be used for interactive participant activity. (15 minutes)

Methods Time Measurement (MTM)

The last half-day of Carl Lindenmeyer’s seminar is captured in this 69-minute video, “An introduction to Methods-Time Measurement (MTM).” The basic motion definitions, what they include, and how they are applied, is covered in this video, the newest in the C-FOUR library. Sample applications are demonstrated, and the “case-reduction” technique, is useful in analysing simultaneous reaches and moves, is explained and illustrated clearly. The video comes with an excellent student handout you can reproduce, and a plastic laminated MTM Data Card. (69 minutes)

CITS and CAWS/E Videotapes

These two brand new videos describe and demonstrate C-FOUR’s state-of-art Computer Work Measurement Software Systems, CITS and CAW/E

Videos 9 image Pace Rating Benchmarking

These videos are the latest development of C-FOUR. They can be used for training IE’s or for use while pace rating on the production floor. Simultaneously 9 images are shown of a basic reference motion with a performance from 85% to 125 %, in increments of 5 %. Since these videos are also available on CD-ROM (mpeg format), the IE can take a laptop computer to the workplace that needs to be analyzed. The motion of the worker can be compared with the reference images on the screen for a better quality pace rating. Three different videos are available showing these motions:

• Walking
• Card Dealing
• Pinboard Filling

Timestudy – The Why and the How

This video (about 55 minutes) treats the techniques used in the establishment of Direct Labour Standards, with particular emphasis on stopwatch time study. Its answers the following questions:

1. When and how did time study originate?
2. Is the technique now out-dated?
3. Why all the resentment toward the rate-setter?
4. How can this resentment be dispelled?
5. What manufacturing functions depend on time standards?
6. What procedures are involved in taking a time study?
7. How do you compensate for fast – or slow – performances?
8. After taking the study, how is the rate set?
9. Now about personal time, unavoidable delays and fatigue?
10. Are labour standards really necessary? How do you explain the fact that some companies operate very efficiently without job time standards?

With its accompanying materials, this video enables every seminar participant to take a time study, apply the performance rating factor, the PD&B Allowance, and calculate a standard.

Methods Improvement

This video (about 55 minutes) begins with a very brief treatment of Frank Gilbreth’s early work in the brick-laying trade and the Proctor & Gamble. It then goes into an actual project at the Tampa Manufacturing Institute – for one of its clients – to develop an efficient method for assembling a 7 – part gate valve. The objective was to:

1. Eliminate using the hands as holding devices.
2. Use both hands in equal & opposite simultaneous motions wherever possible.
3. Work as close to the chest as possible.
4. Use the fingers and hands in preference to wrist, arm and body motions.
5. As much as possible, avoid abrupt starts, stops, and direction changes in motions.
6. Use foot pedals wherever possible.
7. Locate tools and parts strategically.
8. Use gravity feeds, drop-deliveries and ejectors wherever possible.
9. Keep in mind that jigs and fixtures should not be awkward to use.
10. Use power tools to their greatest advantage.

All people involved in the production effort and standards administration need frequent refreshers in Fair Day’s Work concepts; a one-time viewing of videos on the subject doesn’t do the job. It is necessary for I.E. ‘s, supervisors, production workers and appropriate management people to participate in work pace rating practice sessions periodically ... so everyone in any plant has the same concept of satisfactory – or unsatisfactory – performances. This should be done every three months.

Sixteen 20 minutes videos on Performance Rating

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