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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 595259" data-attributes="member: 4932"><p>P-Man, I had one of those little blue cards, too. And I agree with everything you say, regarding the THEORY of work measurement as you and I were taught it.</p><p></p><p>However, the sense I get, is that in the wonderful world of today, the IE function has lost sight of that messy theory that life is a bell-shaped curve, and that actual performance will fluctuate around the allowance + or - 5%. (Don't forget the fact that we only studied to be 95% accurate 95% of the time!)</p><p></p><p>So, that means, given a stable route, and a skilled driver, the actual will fluctuate, a little above, a little below, from day to day, but should average out to be on plan most of the time.</p><p></p><p>If a particular route is consistently too high on off performance, or consistently too low, there is something wrong with the measurement. (again, assuming the driver is skilled and familiar with the area)</p><p></p><p>But I get the impression that the cost of doing actual, real live time studies is something IE doesn't want to incur any more, and they do a lot of it off the DIAD. And don't get me started on using college kids to do the studies. We did that back in the 80's, and it was a disaster: the drivers led them around Robin Hood's barn and left them wondering where they were.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 595259, member: 4932"] P-Man, I had one of those little blue cards, too. And I agree with everything you say, regarding the THEORY of work measurement as you and I were taught it. However, the sense I get, is that in the wonderful world of today, the IE function has lost sight of that messy theory that life is a bell-shaped curve, and that actual performance will fluctuate around the allowance + or - 5%. (Don't forget the fact that we only studied to be 95% accurate 95% of the time!) So, that means, given a stable route, and a skilled driver, the actual will fluctuate, a little above, a little below, from day to day, but should average out to be on plan most of the time. If a particular route is consistently too high on off performance, or consistently too low, there is something wrong with the measurement. (again, assuming the driver is skilled and familiar with the area) But I get the impression that the cost of doing actual, real live time studies is something IE doesn't want to incur any more, and they do a lot of it off the DIAD. And don't get me started on using college kids to do the studies. We did that back in the 80's, and it was a disaster: the drivers led them around Robin Hood's barn and left them wondering where they were. [/QUOTE]
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