Management Of Family Resources

Lesson 47 : Techniques Of Work Simplification

Techniques Of Work Simplification

Pathway Chart:

The Pathway Chart is a simple device for making a motion and time study in the home. A floor plan drawn to scale and fastened to a drawing board or wallboard, pins and thread are all that are needed to make such a study.

Thumb tacks or pins are put in on the floor plan where the worker turns and her pathway is measured from thread wound around the pins as she works. Two charts are used - one for the original and the other for the revised pathway (Figures above and below). If measured lengths of string are used, the task of figuring distances traversed is much simplified. Because of tangling when removing any amount of string left over can be more easily measured than the total amount used. If not enough was measured off at the start, additional measured amounts can be used.