HIERARCHY OF WORK – ANALYSIS LEVELS

Sum of all stages involved in the production of a single unit coherent

PROCESS product either a semi-finished component or a finished final product.
Eg : Manufacture of a flexitank
An identifiable part of a complete process which often consists of a
STAGE discrete function being performed, may consist of one or number of
jobs.
Normally the sum of tasks carried by an individual and may include
JOB
some auxiliary or infrequent tasks eg housekeeping, recording
A task can be simply one operation repeated number of times or
consists of a number of operations. Example a particular worker
TASK
occupies a station on a assembly line, or a batch production worker
for the 2nd case.
An operation normally results in the production of a specific entity, a
OPERATION part of component. Often an operation involves the repetition of one
of more elements that possibly make up 1 work cycle.
A element of work is a small piece of work that is made up of a
ELEMENT sequence/combination of motions and constitute a part of work with
a clear start and end point. (breakpoints)
A motion pattern is an analysis of the basic human motions
performed by a worker in carrying out some aspect of a job, and
MOTION
normally analysed or examined for highly repetitive, short cycle
manual assembly work.