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Volume 46, Issue 1
1 February 1997
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Work Study
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Case Report| February 01 1997

Standard data in batch production at Rank Xerox

D.S. Barrett
Senior Industrial Engineer and MTM Instructor at Rank Xerox, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, UK
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7190
Print ISSN: 0043-8022
© MCB UP Limited
1997
Work Study (1997) 46 (1): 9–19.
https://doi.org/10.1108/00438029710155799

Explains the reasons behind, and the methodology of, a project to introduce a systematic work measurement programme based on standard data to a particular set of operations at the Rank Xerox Mitcheldean site. Points out both the successes and failings of the resultant scheme.

Keywords: Batch production, Methodology, Work measurement
© MCB UP Limited
1997
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