The garment manufacturing and exporting industry is facing heavy challenges due to various factors including global competition, manufacturing costs increase, labor attrition, less productivity/efficiency, etc. So overcoming those challenges our need Effective Word Study knowledge.
Work study is a generic team for those techniques particularly Method Study and work Measurement which are used in the examination of human work in all, it’s contents and which lead systematically to the investigation of all economy of the situation being reviewed in order to effect improvement.
Work study then aims at examining the way an activity is being carried out, simplifying or modifying the method of operation to reduce unnecessary or excess work, or the wasteful resources, and settling up time standard for performing the activity. The relation between productivity and work-study is thus obvious. If work study results in cutting down the time of performing a certain activity by some percentage (Minimum 20%).
As a result of rearranging the sequence or simplifying the method of operation and without additional expenditure, then productivity will go up.
Work Specifications
A work specification is a document setting out the details of an operation or job, how it is to be performed, the layout of the workplace, particulars of machines, tools and appliances to be used, and the duties and responsibilities of the worker. The standard time or allowed time assigned to the job is normally included.
Clarification of Work Study
1. Work Measurement 2. Method Study
1. Work Measurement: Measure the work content in the task.
2. Method Study: Systematic recording & critical examination of ways of doing things in order to make improvements & proposed way of doing works as a means developing & applying easier & more effective methods and reducing cost
Why do we need work study?
-It is a means of raising the productivity of a plant or operating unit by the reorganization of work, a method which normally involves little or no capital expenditure on facilities and equipment.
-It is systematic. This ensures that no factor affecting the efficiency of an operation is overlooked, whether in analyzing the original practices or in developing the new, and that all the facts about that operation are available.
-It is the most accurate means yet evolved of setting standards of performance, on which the effective planning and control of production depends.
-It can contribute to the improvement of safety and working condition at work by exposing hazardous operation and developing safe methods of performing operators.
-The savings resulting from properly applied work study start at once and continue as long as the operation continues in the improved form.
-It is a “tool” which can be applied everywhere. It can be used with success where ever work is done or plant is operated, not only in manufacturing shops but also in the office, stores, laboratories, and service industries such as wholesale and retail distribution and restaurants, and on farms.
-It is relatively and cheap and easy to apply.
-It is one of the most penetrating tools of investigation available to management. This makes it an excellent weapon for starting an attack on inefficiency in any organization since, in investigating one set of problems, the weaknesses of all the other functions affecting them will gradually be laid bare.
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