After reading this article you will learn about the design considerations for work place layout. (1) Materials and tools should be available at their predetermined places and close to the worker. (2) Tools and materials should preferably be located in the order in which they will be used. (3) Wherever possible gravity should be employed for, the raw material to [...]
This article provides notes on Work Study. After reading these notes you will learn about:- 1. Meaning of Work Study 2. Productivity and Work Study 3. Work Study Department 4. Quality of Work Study Man 5. Good Relations for Work Study 6. Applications 7. Work Study and the Management. Meaning of Work Study: Work study is a technique which deals [...]
While an operator handles multi-machine to get the output, for an engineer it is quite important to know the economical number of machines to be allotted per operator. How the number of machines per operator can be found out without considering the factor of machine interference. The cost of operating number of machines by an operator can be calculated by [...]