Reducing Change-Over Times with SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die)

 Besides efficiency and quality, flexibility is an essential characteristic of a World Class organization that wants to keep or improve its market position. Not being flexible results in poor reactivity towards the customers, long lead times, high inventory levels and higher costs. Also from a Lean perspective, flexibility, or the ability to produce small lot sizes of products in an economical way, is essential for reducing waste and improving flow in value streams.

Therefore we need production means that can be set-up fast, frequently and right the first time. 

This will give many benefits: more flexibility which results in better customer service with lower inventory levels, but also freed up capacity on bottleneck processes and an overall reduction of costs.

 “Single Minute Exchange of Die” (SMED) is the approach, developed by the Japanese industrial engineer Shigeo Shingo, while working for Toyota, to effectively reduce these set-up or changeover times. The statement of Shingo is that all machines can be set-up in less than 10 minutes, even when it now takes many hours. Big savings are already possible by improving the way how changeover activities are organized (up to 50%), without big investments.. 

Van Goubergen P&M has conducted about 150 set-up reduction workshops in different types of industries with actual reductions up to more than 90%.  In this workshop we will share and teach our proven methodology that has yielded these results.

What can I do with this training?

Participants have a deep understanding about SMED and how to implement it.

Target Audience

Lean managers, production managers, production team leaders, (industrial) engineers, anyone interested in process improvement

Prerequisites

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Certification

Participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Why follow a training with us?

** All prices are in  € and exclusive VAT (21%).

For our open training schedule in Belgium see www.lean-academy.be

Day 1

•Why reduce set-up times?

•The SMED-method – 4 phases, 3 steps

•Implementing SMED in practice

•How to deal with multi person/multi machine situations? 

•Examples

Day 2

• Case study exercise - SMED on a packaging machine

 For an on-site training we suggest to add a real application SMED on one or more set-ups of your choice at the plant. This way participants learn immediately how to apply this in their environment. We can coach the full implementation. The additional days needed for the pilot implementation will be budgeted based on the complexity of the proposed changeover.