PRODUCTIVITY EVALUATION USING THE WORK STUDY METHOD IN CASTING WORK

Abstract

The construction project’s goal must be achieved through good productivity. Two of the key elements that guarantee project success are workers and machines productivity. Their combined productivity will reflect the ability of a team in completing a project. The work study method or sometimes referred as time and motion study is used to measure and assess productivity. This study uses an observational aproach and combines qualitative and descriptive research methods. The subjects of this study are concrete casting workers, and mixer truck machine. The objects of this research are existing method of the project and the duration. The productivity analysis’ findings indicate that certain aspects of the task can be enhanced to raise productivity levels. The productivity that has been proposed with work study method and man-machine chart as the tool shows average increase in concrete casting workers as about 13%, and increase in mixer truck machine of roughly 36%.