Lean Manufacturing Tools, Principles, Implementation
Description: Quick Changeover techniques for Lean Manufacturing
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How much time does your business waste through inefficient changeovers? SMED or Single Minute Exchange of Die is exactly what it claims to be, it is a technique to deliver a quick changeover in less than 10 minutes. It will take a changeover that normally will take a few hours or even more and reduce it to one that will take single minutes. Through the use of these simple quick changeover techniques companies have reduced setup times from sometimes days to less than 10 minutes, often at little or no cost to
This website aims to provide you with all of the information that you will need to run your own SMED implementation and achieve those quick changeovers. Through this site you will find step by step guides to implementing SMED, hints, graphics and examples of what can be done.
Many companies will use a machine or process to produce more than one component or service, when they swap from one to the next there is often a period of downtime when the process or machine is being prepared for the next batch. A setup or changeover is when you stop producing one part and start to produce another through the same process or machine. There are a number of ways that you can define setup time and you need to be clear before you start how you are defining it;
Lean Manufacturing Tools, Principles, Implementation