2. About Altronic, Inc.
Altronic is one of the premier leaders in industrial
ignition systems for spark ignited, natural gas fueled
engines, which often are active in hazardous conditions.
Altronic produces a wide range of digital instrumentation
and controllers for gas engines, compressors, and other
heavy duty equipment. Altronic's engine controls provide
air/fuel ratio control, speed governing, and complete
custom control panels to keep engines working efficiency,
within emissions guidelines, and fully monitored and
protected. Altronic produces a patented biofuel system
which converts a standard diesel engine to operate on up
to 70% natural gas or bio-gas. This leads to reduced
operating costs, extended run-time on stored diesel fuel,
and limited diesel emissions.

3. Comparison of Work Measurement and Time
Standards Development Systems at Altronic,
Inc.
 Industrial & Systems Engineering students
performed exercises at Altronic, Inc., a local
manufacturer of diesel ignition systems primarily for
use in the petroleum industry. As part of credit in the
methods engineering class and for presentation at
QUEST, the authors applied various techniques to both
the quantification and analysis of manual work
performance. In addition to performing this research
concerning existing industrial engineering practices,
an effort was made by the team to suggest
opportunities for improvement to the particular
subject area. Graphing and charting techniques were
used to develop a framework for general process
improvement studies.

4. Two Hand Therblig Analysis
Therbligs are is the standardized time values of 17 basic
motions to evaluate movements in an industrial process.
The use of Therbligs in this study were evaluated based on
how the operator coordinated left and right hand
movements.
LEFT HAND RIGHT HAND
Movement Time Time (s) Symbol Movement Description
Symbol
Description (s) 3.3 N/A Idle
Get pieces (24") REG 3.3 2.2 PP Preposition
0.4 REG Grab piece from hand
Move and position MP 2.2
0.5 MP Move/position piece
Hold Pieces H 2.9 2 A Assemble piece
Total Time= 8.4 seconds or 233 TMU

5. Simplified MTM
Left Hand Right Hand
Time (TMU)
Description Description
Reach for piece (24") 15 Idle
Grab pieces 2 Idle
Move hand back (24") 15 Idle
Position hand 10 Preposition
Hold pieces 4 Reach for piece
Hold pieces 2 grasp piece
Move hand with
Hold pieces 4
piece
Hold pieces 10 Positon piece
Hold pieces 50 Assemble Piece
Normal Time = 4.032 seconds or 122 TMU
Allowance= 15%
Standard Time= 4.74 seconds or 131.7 TMU

6. Time Study Data
The following data was collected during a time study of a
circuit board assembly process. The process was most
efficiently broken down into three elements.
Element Element Element 1: Grab components from
Obs. No. Element1
OT
2
OT
3
OT
bin
1 6.625 38.176 1.266 Element 2: Place components in
2 3.461 19.508 1.167 designated location
3 3.56 34.688 1.602
4 4.978 19.286 1.913 Element 3: Return excess
5 5.317 35.887 1.15 components to bin
6 3.666 35.233 1.379
7 5.202 32.252 1.602
Note: The Standard Deviation for the second
element is high due to an allowable variance in
8 4.317 13.266 1.709
time for non similar components.
9 3.883 19.386 1.812
10 2.907 39.049 1.16 Element 1 2 3
11 2.914 8.698 1.159 Average 3.818 31.529 1.689
12 2.576 102.615 4.122 Standard Deviation 1.344 22.706 0.760
13 2.137 18.953 2.024 Coeffecient of
14 1.918 24.417 1.589 0.351 0.720 0.450
Variation

7. Process Layout

8. MOST Analysis
Description Sequence Time
50
Retrieve Components from Bin A1 B0 G1 A1 B0 P1 A1
TMU
Grab From Hand and Place 90
A1 B0 G1 A1 B0 P6 A1
Component on Circuit Board TMU
50
Return Extra Components to Bin A1 B0 G1 A1 B0 P1 A1
TMU
Total Time= 190 TMUs or 6.79 seconds
Normal Time= 190 TMUs or 6.79 seconds
Standard Time= 7.46 seconds

9. References
Altronic, Inc. Web. 01 Apr. 2011. http://www.altronic.com
Frievalds, Andris and Benjamin W. Niebel. Niebel’s Methods, Standards and Work Design 12th
ed. Boston. McGraw- Hill Higher Education, 2010. Print.
John Chetsko. Personal Interview. 14 Mar. 2011.
Timer Pro Professional. Website, applied computer services, inc, http://www.acsco.com,
Spring 2011.