CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Introduction METHODS ENGINEERING Methods Engineering is a branch of Industrial Engineering specializing in the analysis of methods. It is the work of one who engages in the analysis, improvement, and standardization of industrial methods, equipment, and working conditions. It requires the critical analysis of the present methods of doing work and then looking for areas of industrial processing methods that need to be improved and standardized, the simplification of work so that workers could easily cope with improved method and the determination and development of the preferable working conditions for the workers to do their jobs effectively and increase their productivity by encouraging them through the form of incentives. Thus Methods Engineering involves processes, machines and most specially man or the operators. The methods engineer decides where humans, depending on certain factors such as personality, ability and knowledge, should be allocated to different works in the industrial processes and analyzing and determining how the workers could work most effectively to perform the tasks assigned to them. In the field of information system methods engineering is the discipline to construct new methods from existing methods. It focus on the design, construction and evaluation of methods, techniques and support tools for information system development. Furthermore methods engineering want to improve the usefulness of system development methods by creating an adaptation framework whereby methods are created to match specific organizational situations. Methods engineering are also known as work study, work simplification, methods study, process re-engineering, business process re-engineering. All of the organizations, companies and even small businesses are following a certain methods or pattern of their works. It is really hard to