PMTS Scientific & Educational Abbreviation

Predetermined Motion Time System

Any scheme useful in the prediction of performance times of industrial work tasks. It analyzes all motions into elemental components whose unit times have been computed according to such factors as length, degree of muscle control required, precision, strength, etc. Time standards of several of these are used as bench mark (q.v.) levels for normal performance in biomechanics and work physiology. For these purposes they are divided into systems: derived from taxonomy and kinesiology; non-taxonomic and kinesiological; taxonomic but non-kinesiological.