For example. —
1. The maintained tension on a belt bears a close relation to its delay periods.
2. The speed of a buzz planer determines its liability to shoot out pieces of wood to the injury of its operator, or to injure bystanders.
Scientific Management, by determining and standardizing methods and equipment both, provides for uninterrupted output.
Effect on the Worker. — Under Traditional Management there is not enough accurate measurement done to make its effect on the worker of much value.
Under Transitory Management, as soon as individual outputs are measured, the worker takes more interest in his work, and endeavors to increase his output.
Under Scientific Management measurement of the worker tells
1. what the workers are capable of doing.
2. what function it will be best to assign them to and to cultivate in them.
Waste Eliminated by Accurate Measurement. — This accurate measurement increases the worker's efficiency in that it enables him to eliminate waste. "Cut and try" methods are eliminated. There is no need to test a dozen methods, a dozen men, a dozen systems of routing, or various kinds of equipment more than once, — that one time when they are scientifically tried out and measured. This accurate measurement also eliminates disputes between manager and worker as to what the latter's efficiency is.