Motion and Time Study for Lean Manufacturing (3rd Edition) [Paperback]

Fred E. Meyers (Author), Jim R. Stewart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0130316709 | ISBN-13: 978-0130316707 | Edition: 3

Motion and time study has finally found a home in the modern plant by helping employees to understand the nature and the true costs of work, assist management in reducing unnecessary costs, and balance work cells to make work flow smoother. This how-to motion and time study book provides readers with a resource that describes the techniques and procedures of motion and time study. Practical, detailed advice is given on all aspects of motion and time study including work station design, job analysis, and the techniques of setting time standards. A new chapter places motion and time study in the context of lean manufacturing. This edition also includes a new section on ergonomics and the environmental aspects of the workplace, while continuing the hands-on approach of prior editions. For engineers and plant managers.

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From the Back Cover

Motion and Time Study for Lean Manufacturing, Third Edition, offers step-by-step procedures, forms, and practical advice on uses of time standards, motion-study techniques, and time-study questions.

It covers other topics such as workstation design, successful attitudes, and goals for motion- and time-study people.

Some of the features of this text are:
• Illustrations and tables that support the concepts presented
• End-of-chapter review questions that help users of the text review and master the material presented in each chapter.
• An appendix of useful forms that help users apply the concepts of motion and time study

New to this edition of the text are:

• A chapter dedicated to the concepts of lean manufacturing
• Additional charts, procedures, and forms that reflect the current theory and practices of the industry

This textbook also serves as a perennial reference on the application of motion- and time-study techniques.

About the Author

Fred E. Meyers is president of Fred Meyers and Associates, an industrial engineering management consulting company. He designs and implements production improvement and motivation systems. Mr. Meyers is a registered professional industrial engineer and a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He has 35 years of industrial engineering experience. He has worked for Caterpillar Tractor Co., Boeing's aerospace division, Mattelloy Co., Times Mirror Corp., Ingersoll-Rand's proto tool division, Spaulding's golf club division, and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, College of Engineering, where he taught for 20 years while starting and operating his consulting business. He was director of applied research and an associate professor.

Mr. Meyers has worked for over 100 companies as a consultant responsible for installing incentive systems, performance control systems, plant layouts, new product startup, and cost estimating systems. He has worked in heavy equipment manufacturing, aerospace, consumer products, appliance manufacturing, lumber, plywood, paper, oil blending and packaging, furniture, tooling, fiberglass, and many other areas. The variety of his assignments has given him the ability to see the wide-ranging uses of motion and time study.

Fred E. Meyers has taught motion and time study to over 130 classes and 5,000 people, including professional engineers and managers, union stewards, and college students. He has presented seminars to the National Association of Industrial Technology, industrial plants, the U.S. Air Force and Navy, and labor unions.

James R. Stewart is Associate Professor of Technology at Northern Illinois University. For the past decade, he has taught plant layout, engineering economy, manufacturing philosophy, production and inventory systems, industrial quality control, ergonomics, and work measurement and improvement. He is a Fellow in the World Academy of Productivity Science. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and is a founding member and is on the board of directors of the Society for Work Science. He is also on the board of The International MODAPTS Association. He is an active member of a number of other societies, including NAIT, ASQ, and Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He has 30 years of experience in work measurement in education, government, and industry.

Dr. Stewart has served on the faculty of several universities; worked in city, county and state productivity programs; and has managed engineering programs in electronics assembly, electronics component fabrication, pulp and paper fabrication, fiberglass processing, industrial tape manufacturing, and engineering consulting. He has published many articles about unique applications of work measurement. James R. Stewart has taught motion and time study in credit and noncredit courses for over 25 years. He has been certified and taught a number of predetermined time systems, including MOST, Work Factor, MTM-1, and MODAPTS.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 370 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (June 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130316709
• ISBN-13: 978-0130316707
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #781,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good content, questionable printing quality, July 18, 2001

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william milz (Marinette 60 miles north of Lambeau Field) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motion and Time Study: For Lean Manufacturing (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

Good explanation of traditional work measurement techniques and does discuss their application to support the "trendy" lean manufacturing techniques. As such, will help practioners of lean techniques to use a sound engineered/quantified approach. At times, seems like a commercial for author's consulting business. Page paper quality, photocopy pictures and illustrations are not professional quality. Price is questionable given printing quality.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Motion & Time Study for FAT Manufacturing, October 7, 2000

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Brice W Seifert (Mississippi State University, MS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motion and Time Study: For Lean Manufacturing (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

Although this book has valuable information regarding traditional time and motion techniques, it does a poor job of addressing the lean manufacturing aspect. In today's dynamic manufacturing environment, the Industrial Engineer is forever pressed to increase throughput and reduce inventories rather than study time standards in infinite detail. Given these constraints, the fusion of more contemporary lean manufacturing techniques with traditional time and motion studies was severely lacking in this textbook.

2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Manufacturing revolution, June 25, 2000

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michael Ayeni (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motion and Time Study: For Lean Manufacturing (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

As time has progressed, manufacturing professionals have become more detail oriented due to the competition within the industry and also due to the high costs of production. With the concept of lean manufacturing being continuously improved, manufacturing will have a high % of efficiency. My goal is to see manufacturing processes have a 100% efficiency. This is a good book to use in undersstanding the big picture of lean manufacturing.