The board of the MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. honored the long-standing, honorary commitment of the leaders of the MTM/IE regional groups in Germany by appointing them as “MTM Fellows”.
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Learning by experience, developing problem-solving skills yourself, reflecting on your successes as well as your failures in order to become better – that’s Scrum, a principle of agile teamwork. What Scrum has to do with MTM was explained by Jan Fischbach in his dinner speech on the occasion of 60 years of MTM in Germany.
The Digital Solutions business unit of Deutsche MTM-Gesellschaft mbH has expanded its product portfolio for MTM applications in the cloud. In addition to MTM-Easy® for the simple determination of production times without MTM knowledge, TiCon for Web is now another software-as-a-service solution available.
To kick off the MTM SUMMIT 2022, a video clip spanned the beginnings of the international MTM methodology standard, current best practices in MTM application, and the future of digital work planning.
Tony Campbell is one of the players in the international partner network One-MTM, which is dedicated to the uniform dissemination of the MTM method standard and provides MTM products and services to member companies and customers of the MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. all over the world.
In the first half of the MTM training year 2022 alone, almost 3,000 participants took part in an e-learning course, webinar or classroom event. This is well above the average level of interest in recent years. Training courses that were particularly in demand were MTM-1® Base and MTM-UAS®.
In the most recent MTM Practitioners and Instructors Lounge, the focus was on the sustainability of MTM training. Specifically, the question was, what’s next? Who accompanies the freshly graduated MTM practitioner in his first steps, in the proper application of MTM or the adaptation of what has been learned to the concrete situation in the company? More sustainability requires more support from the stakeholders, the panel said.
Preparations for the MTM SUMMIT –International Human Work Forum on October 19 and 20, 2022 are in full swing. 32 presentations and sessions are planned, 43 speakers and experts from 26 industrial companies, software providers and institutions have confirmed their participation. The top topics: intelligently networked IE systems, MTM in indirect areas, lean assessment, machine learning, exoskeletons, digital work planning and much more.
How and when can exoskeletons effectively reduce the biomechanical load on workers? Fondazione Ergo-MTM Italia has now published relevant recommendations for the implementation of industrial exoskeletons.
On the initiative of the MTM ASSOCIATION e. V., MTM (Shanghai) Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. organized the “MTM China Forum for Industrial Engineering” as an online event in July 2022. 230 IE experts and labor scientists from over 70 companies and universities in China actively participated in this forum and intensively exchanged ideas on the topic of “MTM in Industrial Digitization”.