AssemblySuite™, the planning software for balanced series production from TAKTIQ GmbH & Co. KG, uses EAWS® (Ergonomic Assessment Work Sheet) for ergonomic assessment of manual work systems. With the seal of approval “approved by MTM ASSOCIATION e. V., the MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. has now confirmed the conformity of the ergonomic assessment in AssemblySuite™ with the requirements and standards defined in the test criteria. The technical evaluation was carried out by Fondazione Ergo-MTM Italia. Italy also saw the first contact with MTM and the EAWS® ergonomics standard, as TAKTIQ Managing Director Dr. Simon Altemeier revealed in an interview.
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MobileCamp, one of the largest German barcamps on the subject of mobile development, took place at the Faculty of Computer Science at the TU Dresden at the end of June. The organizer is the non-profit association MobileCamp e. V., which focuses on the professional exchange, in particular on mobile communication, mobile technologies, end devices and applications as well as the associated social developments and effects.
The TMU Calculator® from the software manufacturer Cut Corners GmbH, the first mobile MTM application for determining target times, bears the seal of quality “approved by MTM ASSOCIATION”.
On June 1, 2022, Herwig Weidle took over management of the Digital Solutions division of Deutsche MTM-Gesellschaft mbH. The previous head of software development succeeds Franz Coriand in his new position, who has reoriented himself professionally. We spoke to the 45-year-old about new tasks and personal goals.
More than 80 organizations and institutions in Germany work together in the Federal Association for Safety and Health at Work (Basi). MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. is a member and has always taken part in Basi events, including A+A, the world’s leading trade fair for occupational safety and medicine, the integrated specialist congress and the information series “Basi im Dialog”.
MTM Hungária Association, Hungarian Ergonomic Society and Austrian Ergonomic Society organize the 11th Industrial Engineering Professional Day as part of the 35th Ergonomic Summer University at OBO BETTERMANN Hungary Kft (Bugyi, Alsóráda puszta 2, 2347 Hungary) on July 6-8, 2022.
At the MTM SUMMIT – International Human Work Forum on October 19 and 20, 2022, the meeting place for production managers, industrial engineers, time managers, IT specialists and design engineers, everything will revolve around the design of efficient and ergonomic work systems. The focus this year is on the topic of “Lean Work”. EAWS International Symposium (EIS) on October 19, 2022 is again embedded in the MTM SUMMIT.
Workplaces arranged in a U-shape, electrically height-adjustable work tables, optimal reach, short distances, flexible provision of materials, individual lighting – SIKO GmbH relies on efficient and ergonomically designed work at the new location in Buchenbach im Breisgau. The manufacturer of measurement and drive technology brought in two specialists to plan and implement modern workplaces in manual assembly: item GmbH, one of the leading providers of modular systems for industrial applications, and Deutsche MTM-Gesellschaft mbH, an expert in prospective planning and design of work systems with the global method standard MTM (Methods-Time Measurement). Everyone involved is convinced of the result: a significant increase in productivity in assembly and satisfied employees.
The introduction of modern work assessment as part of lean activities or systematic productivity management is (unfortunately) often not an issue, especially for medium-sized companies. But time and ergonomic data are important in order to know what your own production or assembly is actually capable of. This is the only way to put current time consumption and physical stresses in the right light and to find out where to start in order to do things better. Based on concrete best practices from the industry, the LeanDigitalConference on May 24, 2022 will show how efficient and ergonomic production systems can be designed and implemented with little effort.
The members of the AG Industrial Engineering of the Working Group for Economical Manufacturing (AWF), which was founded just over a year ago, met on 26./27. April 2022 at ERCO GmbH in Lüdenscheid, a member company of MTM ASSOCIATION e. V. The focus was on the current challenges for manufacturing companies and the contribution that industrial engineering must make in the systematic planning and design of work systems if it wants to be perceived as the engine of value creation in the company.