Methods, Standards, & Work Design (McGraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management Science) - Hardcover

Niebel, Benjamin; Freivalds, Andris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072468246 ISBN 13: 9780072468243

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Synopsis

Faced with increasing global competition, 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, and these keys are the end results of methods engineering.

The 11th edition of Methods, Standards, and Work Design provides 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 is emphasized not only to increase productivity, but also to improve worker health and safety, and thus, company bottom-line costs.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A Web site that will evolve with industry.
Addition of Chapter 7 - Design of Cognitive Work
Chapters 11 (Standard Data) and 12 (Formula Construction) are now combined.
Newly updated DesignTools software (v.3.0).
Addition of a case study of work sampling in a service industry in Chapter 14

About the Author:

Benjamin W. NiebelThe Pennsylvania State University

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072468246
• ISBN 13: 9780072468243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 768