REFA methodology

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The REFA methodology is the bundle of methods to achieve the goals of the REFA Association. The methods concentrate on work design , company organization and company development.

The REFA association was founded to solve a common problem in industry. It was therefore essential that the methods were generally applicable and communicable, i.e. that they could be taught and learned. The REFA Association trains staff for various companies so that a comparable database (originally time values) can be determined with them.

Since the pure data acquisition cannot lead to comparable results, organizational methods were quickly grouped into the data acquisition methods. At its core, the REFA methodology consists of data acquisition methods ( e.g. time study , multi-snapshot , self- recording ), the associated creative methods of work design and work planning , which in turn are based on the descriptive models of work analysis. Control methods (English: Controlling ) and other organizational methods were soon grouped around these process-oriented methods .

The bundle of methods taught by the REFA Association overlaps in large areas with industrial engineering and business administration . REFA itself distinguishes methodology from industrial engineering in that it considers a longer-term focus and a higher level of complexity. The demarcation to business administration is made similarly, so that REFA teaches simple calculation methods, for example, but hardly carries out the cost accounting in detail. The REFA methodology acts as a mediator between the manufacturing areas of companies and management.

Individual evidence

  1. REFA Association for Work Studies and Business Organization e. V. (Hrsg.): Methodology of work studies, part 1: Basics . Hanser, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-446-14234-7 , pp. 36 .