Workshop "Optimization of Logistic and Production Processes" 14 de Outubro 2010

A SANJOTEC – Centro Empresarial e Tecnológico de S. João da Madeira, em parceria com a Associação MTM - Secção de Portugal e com a ATEC – Academia de Formação, irão realizar mais um Workshop MTM subordinado ao tema “Optimização de Processos Produtivos e Logísticos”, que terá lugar no próximo dia 14 de Outubro de 2010, pelas 14h00, no Auditório do Centro Empresarial e Tecnológico de S. João da Madeira.
Com esta iniciativa pretende-se promover a partilha de experiências na aplicação prática de um conjunto de ferramentas e metodologias com vista à melhoria continua das Organizações, nomeadamente ao nível dos respectivos processos produtivos e logísticos.
Pretende-se também que este evento seja um espaço de networking entre as empresas participantes e um local de debate sobre novos conceitos e tendências na área da Gestão Industrial.

Esta iniciativa contará também com uma Montra Tecnológica, onde estarão expostas algumas das soluções tecnológicas desenvolvidas pelas empresas presentes no Centro Empresarial e Tecnológico de S. João da Madeira e pelos parceiros desta iniciativa.
A participação é gratuita, estando o número de participantes limitado aos lugares disponíveis. Neste sentido solicitamos a confirmação da presença até ao próximo dia 08 de Outubro.

Contacto: susana.cocheno@atec.pt

Ws 14 outubro agenda

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MTM Workshop "Optimization of Logistic and Production Processes" - 14 de Outubro de 2010

A SANJOTEC - "Enterprise and Technological Centre" junto com a ATEC, Academia de Formação, e com a Associação MTM, vai realizar um Fórum subordinado ao tema “ Optimization of Logistic and Production Processes”, que terá lugar no dia 14 de Outubro de 2010 nas suas instalações sediada na S. João da Madeira. A agenda vai seguir em breve.

Prokon - Assembly-friendly product design made easy!

Anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of the process chain or product life cycle knows that 80% of the production costs of a product come in the development and design phase. That’s why it’s advisable, if not imperative, especially with products consisting of several parts or components such as airplanes, automobiles, household and garden appliances etc., to research the ease of assembly and, increasingly, disassembly beginning in the development phase. The ProKon method, developed by the MTM Association in XXX has become widely accepted here and is, along with FMEA, a part of the production system in many companies. As an introduction to proper use, MTM offers public and company-intern seminars, which are enjoying growing popularity.

The term ProKon stands for “production-friendly design” and encompasses all methods of design for improving production. The two-day course focuses on the assembly division. ProKon is easy to learn and is conducted in a hands-on fashion. The participants are asked to bring components from their companies to examine for ease of assembly in the first step of the ProKon course (current state) and then in the second step (target state) to calculate rationalization potential. Data is documented on the ProKon analysis sheet, which is available as an Excel table or in TiCon®. “Assembly difficulties” occurring in the assembly process are systematically recorded on the analysis sheet and evaluated with predetermined ProKon units. These are dimensionless units, similar to RPZ (Risk Priority Numbers) with FMEA, which, in total, facilitate a statement about the quality of the design regarding suitability for assembly.

ProKon, in essence, describes the assembly process without accounting for the environment and possible work design measures. From this perspective there are a number of approaches for changing design (see Picture 1):

• Simplify components

• Support through positioning assistance and room for assembly

• Simplify assembly equipment and reduce assembly joints

• Standardize and reduce components

• Standardize fastening devices and torque

• Integrate parts and functions.

Christian Leitl, ProKon instructor and project engineer with extensive experience with ProKon workshops says of the target group: “We’re not just appealing to designers and product developers but, in keeping with the inter-division teamwork in the workshops, to employees in IE, production planning , production and quality assurance as well. Ideally it would be further complemented with employees from purchasing and sales. While most of the participants striving for the title of MTM Engineer at the public seminars have come from scheduling, at the company-internal courses it looks like around two thirds come from development and design and the rest from scheduling and production.

“We want to sensitize the designer and dispense with any existing reservations,” Christian Leitl adds. “He’ll see this after the ProKon workshops, which will be conducted more frequently at work, while implementing these ideas in their main jobs. But when he notices that everyone’s on board and the assembly-friendly design is secured, I find these reservations disappear rather quickly. Organizing these inter-division teams for maximum efficiency requires that everyone receive training in ProKon first.”

In a ProKon seminar in November 2009 in Stuttgart, the participants were able to learn more about ProKon using the real example of a component for an innovative automatic detergent dispenser. After a brief theoretical part introducing the topic and a few application rules, the group used the ProKon data sheet for a current-state analysis of the “detergent dispenser” component. They broke it down into its individual parts and analyzed each part for assembly difficulties. In the second step they developed a target state, which integrated all ideas for simplifying assembly.

According to the learning material, ProKon inspections usually reduce assembly time by 20-30%, a value which was also achieved in the course. In order to reach an “approximate” ProKon time from the calculated ProKon units, which have no dimension, convert the ProKon units to real time values. This time, however, includes only the primary area in the immediate surroundings of the assembly location as described on the analysis sheet for the component. The secondary area, with parts staging, layout design and work station environment are not accounted for.

The seminar finished as a success after two days, though not before the participants conducted a quick run-through of a current-state analysis for the two instructional examples: “PC mouse” and “blow-dryer.” Finally, thanks to everyone’s active participation as well as the professional and personal expertise of the ProKon instructors, the seminar was both intensive and entertaining, leaving the participants with many new insights.

Source: MTMaktuell Nº. 2010/01

MTM - First time right!

Caros amigos,

Infelizmente temos de cancelar o nosso workshop "O MTM e as suas diversas aplicações" no dia 29 de Junho no Porto. Vamos adiar este evento para uma outra data ainda em 2010. Daremos a informação sobre a nova data com a maior brevidade possível.

Lamentamos os transtornos eventualmente causados.

Muitos cumprimentos,

a equipa da MTM Portugal

European Industrial Engineer - MTM becomes IE center of expertise

The promoters (left to right): Knuth Jasker and Dr. Hans Fischer radiate confidence

Since its founding in 1962, the German MTM Association e.V. has been actively supporting its members both in content and organization. An example of this is the development of building block systems such as Standard Data, UAS, MEK or MOS as well as courses such as the “European Industrial Engineer” on the content side and the founding of the Consultancy Organization, the Institute and later the MTM Group for Productivity Services on the organizational side. Through the IMD (International MTM Directorate), whose current president, Dr. Hans Fischer of the German MTM Association, has been serving since 2005, MTM in Germany is an engine and source of innovation for worldwide application. Due to the steady growth of competition which has arisen from the use of MTM in productivity management, through the activities of member companies and through the various partnerships between the Institute and colleges and universities, the MTM Organization has become a promoter of industrial engineering in Germany. We spoke with President Dr. Hans Fischer (MTM Association) and Knuth Jasker (MTM Organization) at the headquarters in Hamburg about the MTM organization today.

MTMaktuell: How does industrial engineering look today from the perspective of the MTM Organization?

Hans Fischer: We see MTM as a process language, a core element in the spectrum of methods and processes of modern industrial engineering. We are, however, aware that MTM alone cannot cover every possible job in IE. That’s why we’re working on combining MTM with other IE methods in a cooperative effort to achieve optimal results for productivity management.

Knuth Jasker: Industrial Engineering is not static. It has developed in companies from its original form as labor economy and time management to a comprehensive system of productivity management. It is a core element for maintaining competitiveness and opens the way for value adding. From Value Stream, modern industrial engineering affects value adding, information flow and material flow. This also contains the administrative operations and, ultimately, the entire value adding chain. The MTM Organization has the expertise and experience to actively support the industry here.

MTMaktuell: And how exactly is this reflected in its training and practice?

Hans Fischer: I’ll begin with training, which comes before practice and is a prerequisite for a company’s success. Last year we expanded the training program accordingly and are now offering a seminar on “MTM and Value Stream”. Here participants will be familiarized with the synergies arising from use in combination with both methods, through learning by doing. In this way they’ll gain skills in Value Stream Mapping and using MTM. “Value Stream Mapping” largely has established itself for examining the entire process chain. To quantify the examined current and target states and conduct a dependable comparison of alternatives, MTM offers building block systems suitable for any situation. With this seminar MTM makes it clear that it hasn’t forgotten its roots in the classic labor economy and time management, but offers thorough expertise in process design and optimization together with other suitable methods and processes in industrial engineering.

Knuth Jasker: Naturally we also see this trend toward an intelligent combination and use of processes and methods in consultancy. MTM is seen here as a process language and core element for Value Stream Mapping. We aren’t just offering companies MTM data calculations, but rather the complete design and quantification of Value Stream and subsystems. We lead the way in CIP processes for identifying potential and accurate quantification. We guide companies through the implementation phase until they’ve reached their goals regarding cycle time and productivity. To illustrate I’ll use the example of “rapid setup,” which currently is quite common in examining Value Stream for reducing carrying costs and cycle times. Through numerous consultation projects we’ve determined that MTM and Value Stream form an ideal combination of methods. Our core expertise is using Value Stream in other successful IE tools together with MTM. Along with that comes our support during implementation. The MTM Organization is thus in a position to offer training, consulting and software from a single source.

MTM lectures at the ETH in Zurich

The ETH in Zurich

A plan long in the making finally came to fruition in September 2009. In the course of three afternoons lectures were held at the ETH Zurich in the so-called "Tools Courses". Coordinated by Ferdinand Nadig, president of the SwissMTM, the MTM process language was introduced with the support of Ticon© and ProKon software.The participants came from different fields of study (mechanical engineering, business administration, electrical engineering and computer science), a mixture that is corresponding with the idea of the "Tool-Courses" at the ETH.

A main reason for joining the seminar was probably the offering of themes that are going much more far beyond the pure MTM building block system. The participants received a fundamental introduction into planing and optimization of human operating sequences in the industry. Besides the presenting of theoretical basics, various case studies had to be solved with support of the MTM software "TiCon".

The lecture got great feedback by the students and was from this point another succesful promotion for MTM in Switzerland as well as within the university departments of "industrial engineering" in Europe. It is already arranged to integrate this course in future to the official university calendar at the ETH and to repeat it every term.

Author: Ferdinand Nadig, President of the swiss MTM association; MTMaktuell 01/2010