Any company, regardless of size, must consider in order to overcome the economic situation caused by the pandemic the process innovation and resource-saving parameters. Methodologies such as work measurement should be used to generate efficient and reliable information through which timely decisions are made. The current research addressed a scoping review of the literature on the most used techniques for determining standard times. Therefore, thirty-three scientific articles were selected to answer the three research questions posed on this study. In addition to the results, it was determined that the use of predetermined time systems are instruments that allow the quantification of a job before executing its production. Indeed, it allows the combination of techniques to develop predetermined systems that are linked to a specific activity. Furthermore, with the use of these techniques, the expense used to develop a new product can be reduced, and the production and administrative processes can be optimized.

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.