minutes, respectively, These requirements to fill bags result in production

standards of 78 hundredweights per man hour for one man filling and weighing

100-pound bags simultaneously and 54 hundredweights for 50-pound bags. Per-

forming the jobs separately, two men can fill and weigh 107 100-pound bags

or 80 hundredweights of 50-pound bags per hour. These standards result in

the output rates by numbers of packing stations shown in Table 1. Four men

filling and weighing separately are roughly equivalent in output to three

men performing the jobs as a single function. The comparisons of costs,

therefore, were made first using four stations for combined filling and

weighing (Method A) and three for separate (Method B) and then eight and

six for the two methods, respectively.


TABLE I.--PRODUCTION STANDARDS FOR FILLING AND WEIGHING 100- AND
 50-POUND BURLAP BAGS AND 50-POUND PAPER BAGS ACCORDING
 TO METHODS, HASTINGS AREA AND SOUTH FLORIDA, 1956


 Burlap Bags Paper Bags
 Number
 of 100-pound 50-pound 50-pound
 Packing
 Stations Method A Method B Method Aa Method B Method A Method B

 - -hundredweights per hour- - 50-1b. bags per hour

 2 156 214 108 160 214 260
 3 234 321 162 240 321 390
 4 312 428 216 320 428 520
 5 390 535 270 400 535 650
 6 468 642 324 480 642 780
 7 546 749 378 540 749 910
 8 624 856 432 600 856 1040

 aFilling and weighing performed simultaneously.

 bFilling and weighing performed separately.