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No definite and permanent advance is made in any kind of work, whether with materials or men, until use is made of measurement.

— Frank Bunker Gilbreth Measurement of the human factor in industry (1917)

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All human activity is a matter of motion and decision.

Gilbreth (1917)

There is no waste of any kind in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed and ineffective motions, and their resulting unnecessary fatigue.

Time study is the art of recording, analyzing, and synthesizing the time of the elements of any operation, usually a manual operation, but it has also been extended to mental and machinery operations.

Motion Study is a means to permanent and practical waste elimination, — hence a prerequisite to efficient preparedness that shall be adequate, constructive and cumulative.

Applied Motion Study (1917)

There is no industrial opportunity that offers a richer return than the elimination of needless motions, and the transformation of ill-directed and ineffective motions into efficient activity.

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