Time-Motion Study is a technique used to increase the efficiency of a Business. It is very useful in scenarios where a System, Process or Work-flow needs to be improved or upgraded. A study involves measuring the time required to complete a specific Motion or Activity and is valid as long as the motion is active. Time studies are applied today to industrial as well as service organizations, including banks, schools and hospitals. Once a new work method is developed, the time study must be changed to agree with the new method.

A Time-Motion Study is used to reduce the number of motions required in performing an activity which has a direct effect to an increase in Productivity. The best known experiment involved bricklaying. Through carefully scrutinising a bricklayer’s job, Frank Gilbreth reduced the number of motions in laying a brick from 18 to about 5. Hence the bricklayer both increased productivity and decreased fatigue.

In Motion – Time Study App includes the following major features:

- Perform Unlimited Studies
- Unified Activity Library
- Create your own study work-flow with customized activities
- Switch between each activity swiftly and easily
- Create multiple User Profiles and Study Profiles
- Save time by associating a saved user profile to readings
- Archive studies
- Generate or Export Studies to XML files which can be later opened in your favorite analyzing software including Microsoft Excel which to generate Detailed Charts and Graphs.

Activity Library – The analyst or user first needs to populate the Activity Library with Activities. You have the ability to group some activities under a category. This enables to manage activities easier at a later time.

Create a Study Profile – Once the user has finished populating the library the next step is to create a study profile. While or after creating a study profile, the user can import any activity straight from the library. You can unleash the advantage of having multiple study profiles each referring to a customer or multiple departments within the customers organization.

Perform Study – That’s it!! You are now ready to perform the Study. Select a suitable Study Profile among the ones you had created earlier. You will be presented with all the activities grouped by categories. Click on an activity and the timer kicks in recording the time activity in background.

Save Readings – Once you are finished recording a task, you have the ability to associate a Customer profile which helps in describing the Customer in detail.

Generate Files – End of the day or whenever you feel appropriate, you can generate a data file (XML File) or multiple (XML Files) of studies performed. You also have the liberty of selecting specific readings rather than all which is the default behaviour.

************Customer Review***************

Danny Cullins -
Great app! Export to xml requires conversion to excel, but the data is accurate and the occurrences are recorded. It's very easy to manipulate the data to build charts and graphs. Great job!

Added a functionality to Sort Activities and Categories in Ascending order.
Incorporated some more stability fixes.