Method Study

“It is a systematic recording and critical examination of existing and proposed ways of doing work, as a means of developing and applying easier and more effective methods and reducing costs.”

Recording Techniques

1. Process Chart Symbols

   • Indicates the main steps in a process, method or procedure.
   • Usually the part, material or product concerned is modified or changed during the operation temporary Storage or Delay

2. Outline Process Chart

   • An outline process chart is a process chart giving an overall picture by recording in sequence only the main operations and inspections.

3. Flow process charts

   • Flow process charts are graphic representations of the sequences of operations, transportation, inspections, delays and storages occurring during a process or a procedure and include information considered for analysis such as, time required and distance moved.

4. Material or product type flow process chart

   • Records what happens to the material or product i.e. the changes the material or product undergoes in location or condition (includes operation and transportation).

5. Two Hand Process Chart

   • Two-Handed Flow Process Chart, is a motion study where the study is done to analyse the motions used by the worker in performing an activity. In this chart the activities of a worker’s hands (or limbs) are recorded in their relationship to one another.

6. Multiple activity chart

   • A Chart in which the activities of more than one item are recorded on a common time scale to show their inter-relationship. Man machine chart is the type of multiple activity charts.

7. Multiple activity chart

   • A Multiple activity chart is a form of process chart recording the related sequence of work of a number of operators and/or machines on common time scale. In it, the activities of more than one item, worker, machine or equipment are recorded on a common time scale to show their inter-relationship.