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Increase Production Flexibility With SMED: Achieving Quick Changeover And Setup Time Reduction
Learn how to create repeatable, reliable and capable changeover processes and procedures and improve considerably the effectiveness, efficiency, and flexibility of your organization.
Written by a successful business improvement practitioner, who has worked on many Continuous Improvement projects in various industries, this no fluff e–book
SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Dies) is a system for dramatically reducing the time it takes to complete equipment changeovers. The essence of the SMED system is to convert as many changeover steps as possible to “external” (performed while the equipment is running), and to simplify and streamline the remaining steps.
Changeover costs take two forms, tangible and intangible. Tangible costs are those that are relatively easy to measure quantitatively. The cost of labor involved in changeover is a tangible cost and is the product of the number of workers involved times their hourly costs. Intangible costs are costs that are difficult or impossible to assign a dollar value. That does not mean they are less important than tangible costs.
The Simplified 6 - Step Roadmap outlines how to incorporate SMED and Quick Changeover in the factory and organization. In addition, the Ultimate Setup Improvement provides ideas on complete abolishment of setup.
Some of the most common techniques with wide ranging applications are reviewed – checklists, equipment checks and repairs, setup schedules, parallel tasks, attachment devices, and more.
In years of improving changeovers, certain “correct ways to do things” that appear valid in most every case have been discovered. Learn the most important points about the rules and how and when to use them.
Learn how to develop and apply SMED and Setup Time Reduction , how to achieve agile, flexible, low - cost, high - quality manufacturing, and how to preserve and improve Quick Changeover process over time. Scroll up and grab your copy now.
Written by a successful business improvement practitioner, who has worked on many Continuous Improvement projects in various industries, this no fluff e–book
SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Dies) is a system for dramatically reducing the time it takes to complete equipment changeovers. The essence of the SMED system is to convert as many changeover steps as possible to “external” (performed while the equipment is running), and to simplify and streamline the remaining steps.
Changeover costs take two forms, tangible and intangible. Tangible costs are those that are relatively easy to measure quantitatively. The cost of labor involved in changeover is a tangible cost and is the product of the number of workers involved times their hourly costs. Intangible costs are costs that are difficult or impossible to assign a dollar value. That does not mean they are less important than tangible costs.
The Simplified 6 - Step Roadmap outlines how to incorporate SMED and Quick Changeover in the factory and organization. In addition, the Ultimate Setup Improvement provides ideas on complete abolishment of setup.
Some of the most common techniques with wide ranging applications are reviewed – checklists, equipment checks and repairs, setup schedules, parallel tasks, attachment devices, and more.
In years of improving changeovers, certain “correct ways to do things” that appear valid in most every case have been discovered. Learn the most important points about the rules and how and when to use them.
Learn how to develop and apply SMED and Setup Time Reduction , how to achieve agile, flexible, low - cost, high - quality manufacturing, and how to preserve and improve Quick Changeover process over time. Scroll up and grab your copy now.
60 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 15, 2015
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