Lillian Moller Gilbreth was an American industrial engineer, born in 1878 and died in 1972, who with her husband and business partner Frank Bunker Gilbreth built the consulting firm Gilbreth, Incorporated around time-and-motion study, developing what they called the Gilbreth System under the motto the one best way to do work. They used motion-picture cameras to record and analyze work processes, using the results to redesign tools and workflows to reduce worker fatigue and increase efficiency, research that helped found the later field of ergonomics. She earned a doctorate in applied psychology from Brown University in 1915, was among the first women to hold an engineering doctorate, and continued the couple's consulting and academic work after her husband's death in 1924.
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was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies.
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May 24, 1878, January 2, 1972
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May 24, 1878, January 2, 1972
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May 24, 1878, January 2, 1972
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Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth (née Moller; May 24, 1878, January 2, 1972) was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies.
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A time and motion study (or time-motion study) is a business efficiency technique combining the time study work of Frederick Winslow Taylor with the motion study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (the same couple as is best known through the biographical 1950 film and book Cheaper by the Dozen).
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Motion-picture analysis of work, used to cut fatigue and raise efficiency, helped found ergonomics.
With her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth she built the consulting firm Gilbreth, Incorporated around time-and-motion study, under the motto the one best way to do work. They recorded work processes with motion-picture cameras and used the analysis to redesign tools and workflows to reduce worker fatigue and increase efficiency. That research helped found the later field of ergonomics.
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