How can my business benefit from MTM …?

MTM is the world’s most efficient system for time and workflow management.

The application of MTM tools allows a drive for work flow perfection and consequently enhances the efficiency of using valuable business resources (plant, workforce, tools, vehicles, storage and production area, inventories, ...).

This is proved by a host of satisfied customers (both huge multinationals and small businesses) who operate both globally and locally.

For a corporation, effective time management is a crucial asset, offering both competitive advantages and dynamic growth. Therefore a business aiming for perfection in this area is bound to get a competitive edge.
Effective time management allows the goods manufacturing and service provision that is more cost-effective, faster and better than before.

Nowadays, the MTM tools are successfully applied for time management and process optimization and standardization in nearly all the areas of operation at businesses of various sectors, e.g.:

• logistics (from in-company logistics to logistics centres),
• administration (banking, insurance, HR, accounting…),
• manufacturing all sorts of goods (from perfume to airplanes…),
• production support (maintenance, production set-up, planning, quality control, design…)
• services
• construction industry.

The MTM tools make a perfect compliment to a number of popular strategies and tools of process streamlining and productivity enhancement in all business areas. 

Over 40 years of practical experience…

For over 40 years the international MTM Group has been perfecting its skills in time management and optimum use of business resources. Thanks to the many years spent supporting businesses on their road to success, MTM Group has acquired a wide range of experience and skills in time management and process optimization.

MTM + Lean Production = BEST PRACTICE
in business process optimization… 

MTM guarantees high productivity of every workplace. In combination with value stream mapping, it also guarantees optimum workflow. It’s only through a combination of MTM and value stream mapping that a fully optimized production system can be achieved.
Time is a crucial parameter in value stream mapping!

MTM i Value Stream Mapping

A combination of MTM and value stream mapping ensures optimization of workflows from the very beginning of the production cycle to replace the more costly process of gradual optimization.

MTM makes a great compliment to the Japanese philosophy of Lean Production. The elimination of waste (the Japanese MUDA) by means of the MTM tools combined with value stream mapping (VSM) allows a much faster increase in productivity. The diagram below presents the advantages of combining MTM with value stream mapping. It puts the concept of a more dynamic increase in productivity owing to a combination of MTM and value stream mapping against the background of the classical Japanese philosophy of Lean Production.

Making use of the capabilities of MTM standards for planning of the micro and macro processes occurring in every business is an indispensable step towards effective optimization. A precise definition of the time and the scope of information used is a prerequisite to increasing a business’ potential while defining both unit and global processes.

A simultaneous application of MTM and a global data structure results in precise time standards within the entire process, from design to the final production stages.

The CONCEPT of MTM planning

The concept of MTM planning puts a high stake on optimization performed as early as the product structural design stage. The vital move in process optimization both at the planning stage and during production is applying the MTM tools in combination with the classical, well-proven methods and taking account of the aspects significantly affecting the process course, e.g.:

• 6Sigma (Six Sigma)
• Kaizen
• KVP - ciągły proces ulepszeń
• 5S
• Kanban
• Ergonomic Workplace Design
• Ergonomic Risk Analysis
• One Piece Flow
• PROKON Structural Design
• TPM, OEE, SMED
• Theory of Constraints (TOC)

MTM Global Production Systems (GPS) – new roads to new objectives!

A global production system opens new horizons to business development. From the start of product development to its production and dismantling – all the processes may get optimized now. At a time when the word ‘comprehensive’ has been misused almost to the point of meaninglessness, a system has emerged which really does cover all the bases. Since GPS can be as effectively applied for the business processes outside manufacturing, it is an ideal solution for the service sector. GPS means an end to the incongruous strategies of improvement through business centres. Even if they offer some success, most actions get regularly wasted through a diffusion of energies. GPS follows quite a different path: a group of objectively measurable goals, a network allowing optimization of strategies, complemented with new solutions, a clear and coherent language process to replace the standard technical gibber, staff integration to allow their understanding, acceptance and internalization of the company standards. Among others, GPS defines the binding standards to drive coordination of various areas, conversion of all improvements and feasible plans. GPS is based on the fundamental understanding. Its main pillar is the principle of ‘global optimization priority over individual optimization’. This starts as early as the product planning process. If you are unable to apply suitable solutions, you tend to ignore the economic realities…

(more on MTM and Global Production System in ‘MTM Handbook – Right from the Start’, to be published by the Polish MTM Association in early 2009)