Faced with increasing global competition, every industry, business, and service organization is restructuring itself to operate more efficiently. Cost-effectiveness and optimized work design are the keys to successful activity in business, industry, and government, and are the end result of methods engineering.

In the twenty-first century, it is essential that the industrial engineer consider both productivity issues and their effects on the health and safety of the worker. This comprehensive text addresses this need by integrating the traditional elements of motion and time study along with human factors and ergonomics and safety engineering.

Key Features:

• Provides a practical, up-to-date text describing engineering methods to measure, analyze, and design manual work.
• Emphasizes both the manual components and the cognitive aspects of work, recognizing manufacturing sector decline and service sector growth.
• Emphasizes the importance of ergonomics, work design, and safety as part of methods engineering to increase productivity, improve worker health and safety, reducing bottom-line costs.

• A new section on work measurement applications to health care and service work in Chapter 16.
• Updates to reflect current industry standards throughout.
• 10-15 percent more problems than the previous edition.
• New version of the time study program, QuickTS, for the iPad and iPhone.