PEME-722D

Work Study & Ergonomics

Performance rating & Allowances

Name of Class Teacher

• Dr Jagtar Singh

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

SANT LONGOWAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY,
LONGOWAL
(Deemed to-be University)
 Performance Rating

The Society of Advancement of Management (SAM) national committee

defines the performance rating as “The process during which the time
study engineer compares the performance of the operator under
observation with observer’s own concept of proper (normal)
performance.

It can also be considered as the efficiency of the worker.

Performance Rating =Observed performance * 100 / Normal performance

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Allowances
 Allowances

The determination of allowances is the most controversial part of the time

study, because it varies from person to person, situation to situation, place to
place, job to job, season to season and many more. Therefore the industrial
engineer feels it most difficult job.

However. certain standardized norms of allowances are in regular practice by

the industrial engineers. These are narrated under five heads as follows :

(a) Interference allowance

(b) Relaxation allowance
(c) Process allowance
(d) Contingency allowance
(e) Special allowance
 Types of Allowances

Interference Allowance
This is provided on a job where the operator is working on several
machines. The machine interference may occur due to settings, positioning,
etc. which may influence the skill and effort of the operator.
However, this may not be added always for calculating standard time as it
belongs to machine controlled element.

Relaxation Allowance
In every computation of standard time, this allowance must be considered
for manual work, irrespective of the nature of the job. The relaxation
allowances are usually expressed in percentage of normal time.

Personnel Needs Allowance

Fatigue allowance
Process Allowance
When an operator is running an automatic machine, he becomes idle after
loading or if the process demands some time to go for next operation such as
allowing cooling after welding operation, he becomes idle. In such cases this
allowance becomes prominent.
Depending on the situations, Indian industries are using the index of process
allowance as shown in following Table:
Contingency Allowance
It is often expressed as percent of basic time and is less than 5% if recomended
by the observer.
According to British standards. it is a small allowance to meet legitimate
expected items of work or delays.
The accurate measurement of this time is not worthwhile and uneconomicaal s
it occurs irregularly and rarely.
Special Allowance
'These include all the other allowances such as policy allowances and
others given by the company such as when a new job is given to worker, he
takes time to learn.
A relief allowance given to operators to facilitate their leader to address on
a certain occasion, etc.
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