Abstract
This article is focused on the implementation of the Work Sampling technique at the Science and Technology Corporation for the development of the Naval, Maritime and Riverine Industry – COTECMAR, more specifically in the Production Department of the Maintenance and Ship Repair Management located in Mamonal facilities; in order to know the percentage of idle times in performed productive processes and to identify the main triggers, through the estimation of the proportion of time played in specifics activities in a certain period of time, using instantaneous observations of work areas and employing probability sampling to generalize the findings.
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Date Received: September 17th 2016 - Fecha de recepción: Septiembre 17 de 2016 Date Accepted: December 19th 2016 - Fecha de aceptación: Diciembre 19 de 2016
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), work study is the It is the systematic examination of methods of carrying out activities so as to improve the effective use of resources and to set standards of performance for the activities being carried out
Work study is developed from the interrelation of several techniques, where special importance is given to the study of methods and work measurement
Summary
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), work study is the It is the systematic examination of methods of carrying out activities so as to improve the effective use of resources and to set standards of performance for the activities being carried out. To carry out such examination, the reference object is marked by the total time or a job, defined as "the time taken by a worker or a machine to carry out an operation or to produce a given quantity of a certain product." Fig. 1 shows how operational time is made up. Work measurement is referred to as the application of techniques to determine the time taken that is invested by a qualified worker to carry out a task at a defined standard of performance
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