Freivalds addresses the increasing global competition and the fact that every
industry, business, and service organization is restructuring itself to operate more
effectively. Cost-effectiveness and product reliability without excess capacity are the
keys to successful activity in business, industry, and government. These keys are the end
results of methods engineering.
The 12th edition of Methods, Standards, and Work Design will provide
practical, up-to-date descriptions of engineering methods to measure, analyze, and design
manual work.
The text emphasizes both the manual components and the cognitive aspects of
work, recognizing the gradual decline of the manufacturing sector and the growth of the
service sector. The importance of ergonomics and work design as part of methods
engineering emphasizes not only increased productivity, but also to improve worker health
and safety, and thus, company bottom-line costs.
Table of Contents
1: Methods, Standards, and Work Design: Introduction
2: Problem-Solving Tools
3: Operation Analysis
4: Manual Work Design
5: Workplace, Equipment, and Tool Design
6: Work Environment Design
7: Design of Cognitive Work
Chapter 8: Proposed Method Implementation
9: Time Study
10: Performance Rating
11: Allowances
12: Standard Data and Formulas
13: Predetermined Time Systems
14: Work Sampling
15: Indirect and Expense Labor Standards
16: Standards Follow-Up and Uses
17: Wage Payment
18: Training and Other Management Practices
Appendixes
1 Glossary
2 Helpful Formulas
3 Special Tables
4 MIL-STD-1567A
722 pages, Paperback