Measurement of Work as a Basis for Improving Processes and Simulation of Standards: A Scoping Literature Review

Abstract

All companies, regardless of size, all over the world to cope with COVID-19 pandemia must innovate to overcome the difficult economic situation. This research paper shows a scoping review based on PRISMA guidelines to present the most used techniques for calculating the standard work times. At the beginning were selected 400 papers from IEEEexplore, Scopus, Web of Sciences, MDPI, and ACM databases. 33 papers finally were selected to answer the research questions which are based on this study. This study concluded that the use of these time systems allows the job quantification before implementing its production. Besides, the high cost when a new product is developed cab be reduced, and all the administrative process are optimized.