MTM-HWD®

The cost of production is a key factor for industrial companies. Labour costs are one relevant portion of these costs, especially for production sites with a high percentage of manual processes. Therefore, describing, analysing, and designing manual work processes in a systematic way is an important task in most Industrial Engineering departments. There are multiple methods to describe and analyse work processes. Widely known methods include REFA, MTM and Work Factor. While there are multiple MTM methods to address the different types of production, one of the most established methods is MTM-UAS®. The most recent process building block system is MTM-HWD®. It describes work processes not only from a productive standpoint, but also includes ergonomic factors to assure productive and ergonomic work in one step. While the MTM systems can be used to systematically design work processes, they still require manual effort for data collection and interpretation. Due to this fact, not every ...