A Comparative Empirical Evaluation of the Accuracy of the Novel Process Language MTM-Human Work Design

Finsterbusch, Thomas; Petz, Andreas; Faber, Marco; Härtel, Jörg; Kuhlang, Peter; Schlick, Christopher

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“…Both studies rely on the MTM-HWD® and MTM-1 analyses of industrial workplaces in various industrial sectors. The scope of the validation is based on the process typological scope specified for the new process building block system, such as cycle durations of 30 to 120 seconds (Finsterbusch et al, 2016).…”

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“…The process language MTM-HWD® was developed on behalf of German MTM Association by Deutsche MTM-Gesellschaft mbH in cooperation with Audi AG, Daimler AG, Volkswagen AG, and Miele & Cie. KG, as well as the scientific partners Institute of Ergonomics (IAD) of the Technical University of Darmstadt and Institute of Industrial Engineering (IAW) of RWTH Aachen University (Finsterbusch & Kuhlang, 2015).…”

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“…Therefore, an intuitive notation language with pictograms was developed. This notation language requires the user to match basic chronological ordered motions and existing influencing factors that also include ergonomic factors (Finsterbusch & Kuhlang, 2015;Kuhlang et al, 2018). By doing so, an 'exhaustive anthropological motion model of the human worker' is created and complete motions are described (Finsterbusch et al, 2016, p. 150).…”

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“…MTM-HWD® uses certain actions (OBTAIN, DEPOSIT, RETRACT, APPLY PRESSURE, MOVE LEG, and CHECK) not only to describe human movements in general, but also to describe the actual postures within work processes. In this context, further building blocks, such as HOLD or WAIT, were developed (Finsterbusch & Kuhlang, 2015).…”

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“…MTM-HWD® is applied as follows (Finsterbusch et al, 2016): the individual influencing factors are described and coupled to the standard time catalogues of a certain company. For assessing the physical workload of the working person, all risk factors that are necessary to derive a score value according to EAWS are included in the process description (i.e., working postures for lower/upper limbs, trunk, head/neck, movement distances, weights and forces, and further process conditions).…”

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This paper presents the empirical validation of the time accuracy of the process building block system MTM-HWD® (Human Work Design). The analysis is based on process data collected from 62 different workplaces in German manufacturing companies. The accuracy of the process system is analyzed by studying the frequency of employed process building blocks in the data collection procedure. Subsequently, the differences between the MTM-HWD® and MTM-1 cycle times are evaluated. The findings show that there is no significant difference from samples of prior MTM-1 studies with respect to the frequency of employed MTM-1 process building blocks. It is shown that there is a systematic difference and a linear relationship between the MTM-HWD® and MTM-1 time data. However, it is demonstrated that the relatively larger MTM-HWD® times do not differ more than 5 % from the MTM-1 times when considering the 95 % confidence interval of the mean. These results meet the development aims in terms of the defined accuracy of the method of ± 5 % in comparison to MTM-1.

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Section: The Process Language Mtm-human Work Designmentioning

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Section: The Process Language Mtm-human Work Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Process Language Mtm-human Work Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Process Language Mtm-human Work Designmentioning

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