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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2, 1930)

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It is, apparently, very easy to schedule and route work, as explained in the previous article, but it is, in point of fact, merely the preliminary survey, if methods of manufacture, modes of procedure, and kindred problems have not been sifted, strained and standardised. From a restricted survey in this country, it is the writer's opinion that from this aspect factory technique is still behind the standard attained in factories both in the Old World and in America. I have noted facts where the Railway Workshops have, to a considerable degree, secured this standardisation with some excellent results, as output schedules will show. This is obtained, however, only by adopting new methods of work in direct correlation with motion study, micromotion study, cyclegraph studies and chronocyclegraph records. This formidable array of technical terms arose as the result of studies in early scheduling, and their use will be apparent as soon as the problem is examined in all its bearings.