Niebel's Methods, Standards, and Work Design

These keys are the end results of methods engineering. The 12th edition ofMethods, Standards, and Work Designwill provide practical, up-to-date descriptions of engineering methods to measure, analyze, and design manual work. The text emphasizes both the manual components and the cognitive aspects of work, recognizing the gradual decline of the manufacturing sector and the growth of the service sector. Theimportance of ergonomics and work design as part of methods engineering emphasizes not only increased productivity, but also to improve worker health and safetyand thus, company bottom-line costs.Faced with increasing global competition, every industry, business, and service organization is restructuring itself to operate more efficiently. Cost-effectiveness and optimized work design are the keys to successful activity in business, industry, and government, and is the end result of methods engineering.