THE EFFECT OF PACING ON WORKER PERFORMANCE

SUMMARY This is an interim report on a comparative study of paced and unpaced worker performance. A number of pilot experiments are described involving simple physical and mental, including inspection, tasks paced by conveyor and other systems. Tentative findings are given, relating to output quality of performance, distributions of operation times and ratios of constituent motion element times. Reference is made to preliminary work on computer simulation of paced systems.