MOTION-MINING® PROCESS ANALYSES EXPLAINED SIMPLY
Motion Mining® Process Analyses
Our Motion-Mining® technology can help with process optimization and process analysis. For process analysis, this technology uses mobile sensors (wearables) and miniature radio transmitters (beacons) to record processes as they run. By equipping employees with wearables and the environment with beacons, process data is obtained during process analysis, based on which process optimization can take place. Meanwhile, we are able to distinguish between about 60 different movements during process analysis. In addition to walking and running, the movements include overhead handling, unhealthy bending, sitting for long periods, bending from the back, carrying, lifting, and holding. Based on the potential identified during the process analysis, we work with customers to develop individual measures for process optimization, thus pointing the way to more efficient and ergonomic work processes. In detail, the individual work steps are automatically reconstructed from the process data determined in the process analysis with the help of a self-developed pattern recognition solution based on Deep Learning and made accessible for further analysis. For this purpose, the movements, body postures, and also the work situation are detected and assigned to the activities in the work process. Compared to manual analysis methods, a 40 to 80 times larger database can be accessed for process optimization, which is generated without physical observation of the employees. Likewise, the scope of application of the GDPR is not open due to a comprehensive anonymization of the data and various organizational measures. Process managers are enabled by our motion mining technology to carry out process analyses and process optimizations more frequently, over a longer period of time, and with several employees at the same time.
Motion-Mining® Process analyses are currently primarily carried out in the production and logistics sectors. In the healthcare sector, we have also taken the first steps with pilot projects with regard to process optimization. The process analysis is carried out with regard to the recording of internal material flows, care activities, and their documentation.