MAINTENANCE WORK

MEASUREMENT

I - Control Charts
are used to detect instability in a work sampling study.
In the chart, P is plotted versus the individual samples gathered on a daily basis.
The upper and lower control limits of P are also indicated in the chart. If all points fall within
the limits, then it may be concluded that the study is stable.

II - Predetermined Motion-Time Systems

are used for setting job standards.
Method-Time

Measurement one of the better

known PMTS.
For setting a job standard, an analyst would break
the job into the basic motions required to perform it
and then sum the appropriate predetermined times
for all the basic motions involved.

Procedure for Setting a Predetermined

Standard
1.

Observe the job or think it through if it is yet to be

established.

2.

Break the job into elements and record each element.

3.

Obtain time units for each job element from the tables.

4.

Add the total motion units for all elements.

5.

Estimate allowances for personal time, delays, and fatigue.

6.

Add the performance motion time and allowance units for a

standard job motion unit together and compute the motion
units to actual time in minutes, hours, and so forth. A PMTS
can be used for developing job standards even before the
work gets started.

III - Standard Data

Standard data refer to standard data banks for various
elements that occur repeatedly in the workplace. These
elements can be put together to develop job standards.
Standard data development is one of the desired
activities of a maintenance department. Its advantages are
the ff:

It eliminates the repetitive work of the time study analyst.

It saves time in setting job standards.

It provides greater consistency between similar job standards.

IV - Estimating
Estimating is the process of using past experience to predict future
elements. It can be used to develop job standards in an inexpensive way.
Advantages:

Lower cost

Being able to estimate the job standard before the job is started

Disadvantages:

Estimated job standards are often inconsistent

Method changes may not be taken into account (i.e., the job standard may not be
recomputed when necessary)

Estimated job standards cannot be applied to jobs for which experience is not
available

 Usually,

maintenance work can be divided into the following

categories:
1. Routine work of regular frequency
2. Routine work of irregular frequency
3. One-of-a-kind work that requires less than 100 hours
4. Nonroutine jobs that require more than 100 hours

Comparative Estimating (Slotting)

is a work measurement technique used to measure
the work content of low, repetitive maintenance
work. Also, it is a relatively economical alternative.
It is based on a principle that an experienced
worker can estimate a range of time during which
certain task can be completed most of the time.

Applying Comparative Estimating

The

basis of comparative estimation is its reliance on a

series of benchmark jobs.

Slotting

positioning any new or unmeasured job into an

appropriate group of benchmarks
Two accepted methods of slotting:

1.

Ranking each benchmark in any particular group would

be arrange in increasing order

2.

Direct comparison the work content of the new job is

compared with a benchmark of similar work content

Unlike production work, every maintenance activity

does not require a job standard.
A company can obtain standards by using estimation
in the earlier stages and then by monitoring closely to
improve the estimated job standards.