MTM on the road. In the second half of the year, the journey of the MTM experts starts at the AutoErg meeting at Schaeffler in Erlangen and ends with the highlight, the MTM SUMMIT on October 18 and 19, 2023 in Hamburg.
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More than 70 experts and managers from over 40 companies attended the MTM China Forum for Industrial Engineering at the Shanghai New International Expo Center in early July. Initiated by the MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. and organized by MTM (Shanghai) Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd, the event focused on the application of MTM in the planning and design of production systems and best practices in combining MTM with automation and digitization technologies.
The students of the industrial engineering bachelor’s degree program at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences recently had the opportunity to learn about the MTM method standard in detail and to apply the knowledge in practice right away. “MTM for the digital design of efficient and ergonomic work” was the topic of a guest lecture by Dr. Fabian Nöhring, Innovation Manager and Project Manager at Deutsche MTM- Gesellschaft mbH, as part of the lecture “Production Engineering”.
Keeping employees healthy and on the job for the long term. Dr. Steffen Rast, head of the ergonomics department at Deutsche MTM-Gesellschaft mbH, addressed this requirement for today’s work planning in a keynote speech at the meeting of the “Time and Work Management” working group of AWF (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Wirtschaftliche Fertigung). His conclusion: “The ergo traffic light must be set to green.”
MTM China, subsidiary of the German MTM-Gesellschaft mbH and partner in the One-MTM network, hosted the MTM China Forum for Industrial Engineering on July 6, 2023. Olaf Damitz, product planner at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, and Dr. Thomas Finsterbusch, head of the MTM Academy, presented the key performance indicator eHPU as a new industry standard for design evaluation to industrial engineers, time managers and work planners from numerous companies based in China.
The general meeting of the MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. will elect a new board this year. Members with Premium status were able to submit proposals for their representation on the MTM Board by May 31 of this year. The following potential candidates for the 2023 board election were reported to the MTM board in due time:
However, the software solution is still compatible with existing SAP ECC 6 systems. The TiCon for SAP software solution is certified annually. This ensures that the current version of the software meets SAP’s strict quality standards and compatibility requirements.
The international partner network One-MTM is committed to the uniform dissemination of the MTM methodology standard and provides member companies of the MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. and customers worldwide with certified MTM training courses in the form of e-learning, webinars or classroom courses.
The Mexican MTM Association, partner of the MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. and member of the global network One-MTM, will host the International Forum Productivity & Ergonomics for the Future (PE4F) as a free online event on August 29 and 30, 2023.
On Wednesday, June 07th, 2023, the members of the Hamburg district association of the VDI working group Value Analysis/ Value Management met to exchange experience at the Hamburg location of the MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. The topic of the joint event was increasing efficiency with MTM – process optimization and capacity planning.