IBM 1130 User Manual page 175

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Work Measurement Aids
This program aids manufacturers who need to
know the time it should take to manufacture a pro-
duc t. This task, often referred to as work measure-
ment, has traditionally been very time-consuming
and expensive. Work Measurement Aids provides
two programs to assist in setting time standards.
This information also forms the foundation for labor
standards, cost estimates, machine operation
instructions, and scheduling input. The two pro-
grams are:
Machinability, which determines optimum ma-
chine tool parameters such as speed, feed, horsepower,
tool life, and process time for machining operations.
Work Measurement Sampling, which determines
job standards for long cycle operations (over 15
minutes) and the distribution of time to job activities
(conventional work sampling) .
Commercial Subroutine Package
This program provides the scientific and engineering
user with added capabilities for handling functions
and techniques common to commercial programming.
It
is a set of 28 subroutines callable by the
FORTRAN programmer in a similar manner to such
standard functions as sine, cosine, square root,
etc. The subroutines enable the 1130 user to add
commercial applications such as payroll, cost ac-
counting, and many others.
The additional functions supplied are variable
length alphameric move, variable length alphameric
compare, variable length alphameric edit, variable
-length conversion from EBCDIC to floating-point,
variable length conversion from floating-point to
EBCDIC, zone manipulation, fill an area with a
specified character, stacker select, variable length
decimal add, variable length decimal subtract,
variable length decimal multiply, variable length
decimal divide, variable length decimal compare,
sign manipulation, overlapping printing and carriage
control, overlapped reading of cards with conver-
sion of card codes, overlapped printing on the
console printer, and conversion from one charac-
ter per word to two characters per word.