弗蘭克·邦克·吉爾布雷斯

Quotes

• “All human activity is a matter of motion and decision.”
• “We're all like tools. Not only like tools, we are tools, tools of Time. We're worn into grooves by Time — by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness — achievement.”
• “Time study is the art of recording, analyzing, and synthesizing the time of the elements of any operation, usually a manual operation, but it has also been extended to mental and machinery operations.”
• “Motion study is the science of eliminating wastefulness resulting from using unnecessary, ill-directed, and inefficient motions. The aim of motion study is to find and perpetuate the scheme of least waste methods of labor.”
• “There is no waste of any kind in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed and ineffective motions, and their resulting unnecessary fatigue.”
• “There is no industrial opportunity that offers a richer return than the elimination of needless motions, and the transformation of ill-directed and ineffective motions into efficient activity.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1868-07-07 ) July 7, 1868, Fairfield, Maine , U.S.

Died

June 14, 1924 (1924-06-14) (aged 55), Montclair, New Jersey , U.S.

Occupations

Builder Industrial engineer Management consultant

Known for

Time-motion study

Spouse

Lillian Moller ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. October 19, 1904</span>"}]]}'>1904 ) ​

Children

13, including Ernestine , Frank Jr. , and Robert

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Wikidata facts

Image

Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr 1868-1924.jpg

Number of children

12

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