Validation of methods time measurement data

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Bahçıvancılar, Uğur

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This thesis shows the results of an experiment in order to test the validity of Methods Time Measurement (MTM) data. MTM, developed in 1948, is one of the most commonly used Predetermined Motion Time Systems to calculate standard time for a task. However, there is limited research on the validity of the MTM data in the literature. Today’s technology provides new computerized tools to perform time studies. One of such tools is Real Time Method Study (RTMS). RTMS is a computerized method study tool being developed in METU Technopolis, which uses Image Processing and Machine Learning to conduct time studies automatically. RTMS uses MTM data as a benchmark data to compare observed performance results; therefore validity of MTM data is an important issue for it. In order to test the validity of MTM data an experiment conducted in the Ergonomics Laboratory of the METU Industrial Engineering Department. In this experiment 40 undergraduate students performed four different tasks. These tasks were recorded by a video camera and analyzed frame by frame to calculate normal times for basic motions of MTM. Results are compared with the original MTM data and it is shown that MTM times do not fit the observed data. This study in the end suggests updating MTM data or constructing a new standard time database by using a tool like RTMS.

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Production standards., Industrial productivity., IIndustrial productivity

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614916/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21801

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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U. Bahçıvancılar, “Validation of methods time measurement data,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.