Videos and IE Instructional Materials
***Announcing - Finally, some real help in pace rating***
C-FOUR’s new PACE RATING BENCHMARKING videotape kit is now available to help the work measurement analyst in actual pace/performance rating during a time study!
Three amazing new videos for pace rating training as well as for comparison performance (pace) rating right out on the production floor while the time study is being conducted! Each of these videos shows nine (9) images on the screen at the same time. The pace rating benchmarks of walking (70% to 150% in 10% increments), card dealing (same paces as for walking), and pinboard filling (80% to 120% in 5% increments). These videos are available in both VHS and CD-ROM (mpg) formats. The latter format may be used in the analyst’s notebook or laptop PC and the videos played right next to the operator being studied. The speed and effort of the actual operator can be directly compared or matched to one of the nine video images on the notebook PC’s monitor. When this “comparison” method was been used in a pace rating workshop the average pace rating error was reduced by 4% and rating consistency was significantly improved. Cost is $595 for the 3-video kit in either VHS or CD-ROM/mpg format. All six videos (both VHS and CD-ROM/mpg formats) cost is $995 (plus shipping and handling).
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Work Measurement Training & Practice Videos
This superb set of three videos with a complete "user's kit" allows the work measurement analyst to practice, improve, and evaluate the motor-perceptual skills required to:
1. Recognize the end of a work element.
2. Read and Remember the stopwatch reading.
3. Recall and Record the reading.
All three videos illustrate operations with 2 elements per cycle. One of the practice videos requires the recording of a non-cyclic stock-up element. The set is housed in a deluxe vinyl album. A narrated slow-motion segment on each tape precisely describes the operation and exactly when to record the time readings. A complete "user's kit" is included containing: operation element description sheets, detailed format and instruction sheets (illustrating precisely how and where to record the watch readings on the form, 3 pads of 50 special time study practice forms, and 3 plastic laminated overlay grading masks with the correct times. A set of instructor's overhead transparencies is included. Each video is about 20 minutes in length and permits 4 full practice sequences before the tape needs to be rewound.
3 Video Set Cost: $595 plus $25 S&H
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We now offer "Sewing King Comforter Bags," a 22 minute 19 cycle video for time study practice. This video has been used as a excellent '"final exam" to evaluate the trainee's ability to conduct an entire time study. The elemental times are longer than in the set of three videos described above. The video "kit" comes housed in a deluxe vinyl album and is complete with a pad of 50 custom time study practice forms and the author's professional time study analysis.
Complete "Kit" Cost: $195 plus $15 S&H
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Is Time Study a Lost Art?
Your company can now take advantage of the materials taught in Professor Lindenmeyer's widely acclaimed seminar/workshop, Work Methods & Standards: Time Study Fundamentals. Over one-half of the first seminar day is captured on these three video tapes. This set of videos includes Videos #1 and #2: Time Study Fundamentals Parts "A"and "B" along with Video #3: Equipment, Devices, and Supplies Used in Making an Engineered Work Measurement Study. Videos #1 and #2 cover the time study basics of: the various important uses for the work standard; the different methods available to establish a time standard; how to determine if the operation is ready to study; how to break down the operation into elements; and a detailed discussion of the entire step-by-step procedure involved in making an engineered work measurement study. Video #3 presents, describes, and demonstrates much of the equipment used in making a time study and the instructional materials available to assist in the training of the analyst's motor- perceptual skill development and performance (pace) rating. Each video is about 30 minutes.
Each video is $195 plus $15 S&H
or theset of all three for just $495 plus $25 S&H
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Pace Rating: Another Lost Art?
Pace (or Performance) Rating is the process of making a trained judgment of the operator's speed and effort during the performance of the operation. To a degree, the method is also rated, but only in terms of the operator's ability to do complex and difficult motion combinations that cannot be done by a normal operator. Rating is certainly a learned art and the use of pace (performance) rating films and videos are often used to provide practice for the work measurement analyst. This video, "Incentive Assembly Operations," the first in a planned series, shows six (6) scenes of assembly operations. The work is short-cycle and is performed at an incentive pace. The performances range from over 110% to below 180%. Each "true" rating was determined using Morrow's synthetic rating method using 4M (computerized MTM-1) as the predetermined normal time. Each scene is shown for approximately two minutes. This allows ample time to estimate both the lowest and highest possible ratings as well as a final rating judgment. Each scene is followed by a "Record Your Rating Now" title and this followed by a title with the "true" or MTM-based synthetic rating factor. An instructional handout and documentation showing the development of the synthetic rating factors is included (20 minutes).
Cost: $195 plus $15 S&H
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Three new work sampling videos are now available.
"Work
Sampling Fundamentals - Parts A & B" and "Computer-Aided Work Sampling
for Continuous Improvement." These 3 videos, each about 30 minutes
in length, are sufficient for a one-week academic course
(with lab) or about three hours of practical instruction in this
powerful productivity improvement technique. The "Part B"
video comes with 10 sets of an excellent manual work
sampling simulation exercise for hands-on "proof" that
the technique works!
Each video is $195 plus $15 S&H
or the set of all three for just $495 plus $25 S&H
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Activity (Work) Sampling
This video tape, originally developed for the hospital manager, won a first place award in the Industrial Management Society's film competition, health care division. The Activity (Work) Sampling technique involves taking a large number of random observations of worker or equipment activity. From the ratio of observations in a given activity to the total observations made in the study, an estimate can be made of the percent occurrence of that activity. This video covers the technique's definition, design methodology and procedures, sampling statistics, and reporting of results. Computer-Aided Work Sampling is briefly introduced. The viewer of this video is guided through the process of identifying those areas in his/her department where the results of an activity sampling would be useful. Many examples from the health care field are illustrated. This video has been used in the manufacturing as well as the service sector with excellent results. It is a clearly presented introductory film covering the basic fundamentals of the activity (work) sampling technique. Ten sets of a manual work sampling simulation exercise are included. This video tape makes an excellent introduction to the set of three videos described above. (20 minutes).
Cost: $195 plus $15 S&H
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We can now announce our new video, "Productivity and the Problem-Solving Process," a short (15 minute) video that was produced for the health care field. In its original form, it won a first place award in the Industrial Management Society's national film competition.
The contents of "Productivity and the Problem-Solving Process" is applicable to all types of business and industry. The video starts with a definition and examples of productivity and its components, output and input. The tape is stopped and the viewer is asked to list those output and input elements in their department and to "check" those that have good room for improvement, those that they can readily change or control, and those that are high cost items. The iewer is then led through the problem-solving process of defining the problem, collecting appropriate data, questioning the what, where, when, who, and how of the system under study, generating creative improvements based on eliminating; combining; changing the person, place, or sequence; and improving the necessary details of the task. An example involving the improvement of an actual health care system is used to illustrate the problem-solving process. This video makes a good, short introduction for any problem-solving meeting. It comes in a deluxe vinyl album with script and blank analysis forms you may reproduce.
Cost: $195 plus $15 S&H
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Methods-Time Measurement (MTM)
The last half-day of Carl's seminar is captured in this 69-minute video, "An Introduction to Methods-Time Measurement (MTM)." The basic motion definitions, what they include, and how they are applied is covered in this video, the newest in the C4 library. Sample applications are demonstrated, and the "case-reduction" technique, useful in analyzing simultaneous reaches and moves, is explained and illustrated clearly. The video comes with an excellent student handout you can reproduce and a plastic laminated MTM Data Card.Cost: $195 plus $15 S&H
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Industry's Perenial Problem
This 56-min. presentation pictorially defines current FAIR DAY'S WORK concepts, shows that 100% labor performances are relatively easily attained, and, at the end, points out that inflation and recession are not our foremost problems today; they are merely the results of more serious basic problems - national greed and laziness. We will not, as a nation, emerge from today's crises of international competition until all of us, both production employees and management, decide to match our forefathers' willingness to work.
Cost: $200 plus $15 S&H
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Timestudy - The Why and the How
This video treats the techniques used in the establishment of Direct Labor standards, with particular emphasis on stopwatch timestudy. It answers the following questions:
- When and how did timestudy originate?
- Is the technique now out-dated?
- Why all the resentment toward the rate-setter?
- How can this resentment be dispelled?
- What manufacturing functions depend on time standards?
- What procedures are involved in taking a timestudy?
- How do you compensate for fast - or slow - performance?
- After taking the study, how is the rate set?
- What about Personal time, Fatigue, and unavoidable Delays?
- Are labor standards really necessary? How do you explain the fact that some companies operate very efficiently without job time standards?
With its accompanying materials, this video enables every seminar participant to take a timestudy, apply the performance rating factor, the PF&D Allowance, and calculate a standard.
Cost: $200 plus $15 S&H
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Methods Improvement
This video begins with a very brief treatment of Frank Gilbreth's early work in the brick-laying trade and at Proctor & Gamble. It then goes into an actual project at TMI - for one of its clients - to develop an efficient method for assembling a 7-part gate valve.
- Eliminate using the hands as holding devices,
- Use both hands in equal & opposite simultaneous motions whenever possible,
- Use the fingers and hands in preference to wrist, arm and body motions,
- As much as possible, avoid abrupt starts, stops and directional changes in motion,
- Use foot pedals wherever possible,
- Locate tools and parts strategically,
- Use gravity feeds, drop-deliveries and ejectors wherever possible,
- Keep in mind that jigs and fixtures should not be awkward to use, and
- Use power tools to their greatest advantage.
Cost: $200 plus $15 S&H
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Our policy is that we do not allow for preview, rental, or returns of our videos unless they are damaged.
