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Industrial engineer measuring manufacturing workflow

Don’t Undermeasure: How Cheap Annotation Changes the Tempo of Decision-Making

When measurement is expensive, planning becomes unreliable; automating time‑study annotation lowers the cost of fresh data so that every decision can be grounded in facts.

November 4, 2025 • 6 min read

Ilya Valmianski

industrial engineeringMODAPTSSWCTtime studieslean manufacturingkaizen

Better Inputs, Better Factories: What We Learned About Measuring Work

Industrial engineers spend 4-14 hours weekly recording GoPro videos, writing MODAPTS codes, and hunting for missing minutes in their routings. Here is what we learned from IEs at Tesla, GM, and dozens of other manufacturers about how time studies actually get done.

September 30, 2025 • 7 min read

Ilya Valmianski

lean manufacturingkaizentime studiesindustrial engineering