| Although Taylor left us clear ethic rules the basis of methods improvement or reorganizing was done by his colleague Frank Gilbreth.
He invented a system to analyze and categorize the methods of working in detail called "Therbligs". By doing so Gilbreth defined the fundaments of modern time study systems and INDRUSTRIAL ENGINEERING.
The therblig system of Gilbreth allowed us to scientifically categorize and organize work. His succeeders added predetermined timestudy to measure the catgories as he defined in the therblig system.
Maynard & Quick the inventors of the future time study systems MTM en workfactor used a modified theory of Gilbreth as a corner stone of there design.
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