STANDARD TIMES FOR AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS

SUMMARY In planning production or new plants it is necessary to pre-calculate exactly the required number of operators and their equipment and machine tools. Such data are used also in calculating the efficiency of technical equipment and types of buildings required by new plant. It is seldom possible to use data based on experience gained from the former course of production, for normally the aim of replanning is to alter these conditions. Therefore, data are needed on time requirements at the different work-places. These.data have to indicate the influence of any alteration in the workplace. Such standards on time requirements can only be derived from work experiments. As agriculture proves, even standards concerning complicated operations can be fixed in advance and can be varied exactly with the planned project. In general, standards concern smaller parts of an operation, but they can also be summed up to give times for complete operations or even complete production plans when listed in catalogues.