Efficiency factor is a ratio of some measure of performance to an expected value.
Data communication
In
data communications
Data transmission and data reception or, more broadly, data communication or digital communications is the transfer and reception of data in the form of a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal transmitted over a point-to-point or ...
, the factor is the ratio of the
time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
to transmit a text automatically at a specified
modulation rate to the time actually required to receive the same text at a specified maximum
error rate. All of the communication facilities are assumed to be in the normal condition of adjustment and operation. The practical conditions of measurement should be specified, especially the duration of the measurement.
Telegraph communications may have different temporal efficiency factors for the two directions of
transmission
Transmission may refer to:
Medicine, science and technology
* Power transmission
** Electric power transmission
** Propulsion transmission, technology allowing controlled application of power
*** Automatic transmission
*** Manual transmission
*** ...
.
Industrial engineering
In
industrial engineering
Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex process (engineering), processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, kno ...
, the efficiency factor is the relationship between the allowance time and the time taken, in the form of percentage.
Efficiency factors are used in performance rating and remuneration calculation exercises. The efficiency factor is an extremely simple to use and readily comprehensible index, the prerequisite being exact
time management
Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. It involves of various demands upon a person relating to Employme ...
for maintaining the allowed times.
[Poeschel, Frank: Zeitgrad. In: Landau, Kurt (Ed.): ''Lexikon Arbeitsgestaltung : Best Practise im Arbeitsprozess''. Stuttgart: Genter, 2007. - {{ISBN, 978-3-87247-655-5. P. 1322.]
References
Data transmission
Industrial engineering
Time management