Estimates of task completion time are required to develop production programs, maintenance schedules, and prediction systems. Acquiring such data, when the information is not available in data banks, requires time-consuming and costly observations of task performance. An alternative to direct time-study observation is judgment by a skilled person. An efficient technique for making estimates of task-execution time, along with supporting reliability and validity data, is presented.
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