Evaluation of operational times by MTM methods in the digital factory enviroment

Abstract

In this time of globalization, when every company needs to stay competitive to survive in the market, it is still more necessary to reduce costs, streamline production, innovate the product or whole production systems etc. This contribution is focused on using the concept of digital factory in the planning phase, specifically on setting operation times in a packing workplace. Times are set by two methods, MTM1 and UAS. After this planning phase, the process is simulated in a virtual environment. After simulations and experiments with virtual workplace, we created a real workplace, and conducted real experiments. At the end of the paper is a comparison between real and virtual workplaces.