To obtain results with the least expenditure of time, the operations must be subjected to motion study before they are timed as well as after.  This motion study can be accurate and of permanent value only in so far as the divisions are final.  The resulting improved operations are then ready to be timed.

ULTIMATE ANALYSIS THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY.—­When the analyst has proceeded as far as he can in dividing the work into prime factors the problem continues in the field of psychology.  Here the opportunities for securing further data become almost limitless.

ULTIMATE ANALYSIS JUSTIFIABLE.—­It is the justification for analysis to approach the ultimate as nearly as possible, that the smaller and more difficult of measurement the division is, the more often it will appear in various combinations of elements.  The permanence and exactness of the result vary with the effort for obtaining it.

QUALIFICATIONS OF AN ANALYST.—­To be most successful, an analyst should have ingenuity, patience, and that love of dividing a process into its component parts and studying each separate part that characterizes the analytic mind.  The analyst must be capable of doing accurate work, and orderly work.

To get the most pleasure and profit from his work he should realize that his great, underlying purpose is to relieve the worker of unnecessary fatigue, to shorten his work period per day, and to increase the number of his days and years of higher earning power.  With this realization will come an added interest in his subject.

WORKER SHOULD UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF ANALYSIS.—­It is not enough that the worker should understand the methods of measurement.  He can get most from the resultant standards and will most efficiently cooeperate if he understands the division into elements to be studied.

SCHOOLS SHOULD PROVIDE TRAINING.—­Much of the training in analysis in the schools comes at such a late period of the course that the average industrial worker must miss a large part of it.  This is a defect in school training that should be remedied.  Even very young children soon are capable of, and greatly enjoy, dividing a process into elements.  If the worker be taught, in his preparations, and in the work itself, to divide what he does into its elements, he will not only enjoy analysis of his work, but will be able to follow the analysis in his own mind, and to cooeperate better in the processes of measurement.

THE SYNTHESIST’S WORK IS SELECTION AND ADDITION.—­The synthesist studies the individual results of the analyst’s work, and their inter-relation, and determines which of these should be combined, and in what manner, for the most economic result.  His duty is to construct that combination of the elements which will be most efficient.

IMPORTANCE OF SELECTION MUST BE EMPHASIZED.—­If synthesis in Scientific Management were nothing more than combining all the elements that result from analysis into a whole, it would be valuable.  Any process studied analytically will be performed more intelligently, even if there is no change in the method.