WHAT SHOULD BE DEFINED IN A TIME STUDY
- Define the objective, why a time study will be carried out, what will be done for what will be done, define the stages and duration of the project, define the final responsible for the project, this person is the coordinator, the one that responds to the High Management: Define those responsible for each stage of the project, that is, users, participants, must be selected by senior management and the person in charge and coordinator of the project.
STEPS FOR THE ANALYST METHODS
1.-Define project objective.
2.-Document the processes and those responsible.
3.-Take time for each activity in the process and value it.
4.-Determine productive and non-productive times.
5.-Analyze the times, that is, see what can be done to minimize the time of operations and divide the non-productive time into tolerance time and lost time that the company could recover.
6.-Prepare optimization proposal.
-Restructuring
-Staff requirement
-Description of Posts
7.-Cost analysis. This is knowing how much each process currently costs us and how much it will cost us after the recommendations.
8.- Implementation of the recommendations. This requires the support of senior management. It is necessary to involve the users in some way, so that they feel that they are the owners of these changes, that they believe that it was they who made the suggestion.
9.-Follow-up. A unit is needed to follow up on these recommendations.
STAGES AND DURATION OF THE PROJECT
1.-SELECT, the work or process to study
2.-REGISTER, or collect all relevant data about the task or process used, the most appropriate techniques and arranging the data in the most comfortable way to analyze them.
3.-TO EXAMINE, the facts registered with a critical spirit, wondering if what is done is justified, according to the purpose of the activity; the place where it is carried out, the order in which it is carried out; who executes it; and the means used.
4.-ESTABLISH, the most economical method taking into account the circumstances and using the different management techniques, as well as the contributions of leaders, supervisors, workers, and other specialists whose approaches must be analyzed and discussed.
5.-EVALUATE, the results obtained with the new method compared to the amount of work required and establish a standard time.
6.-DEFINE, the new method and the corresponding time, and present said method, either verbatim or in writing, as management estimates to all those concerned, we will use demonstrations.
7.-IMPLEMENT, the new method, training interested people, as a general practice with the set time.
8.-CONTROL,, the application of the new standards following the results obtained and comparing it with the objectives.
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