Why Setup Time Reduction is important in your Operations?
7 Major Reasons to reduce the Setup Time in Bottleneck Machines.
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SMED (Quick Changeover) focuses on reducing the change-over time in the machines. It improves the machine availability thereby improves the overall productivity.
Changeover time should be as low as possible !!
What are the common problems of High Change-Over Time in your machines?
Increases OverProduction - People don't do frequent changeovers (as setup time is high) and WIP builds up
High WIP results in high space requirement in the shop floor
People won’t get trained in setups as they don’t do setups frequently - resulting in high variation in setup time and poor quality setups / lot of adjustments
Increases Waiting Waste (of materials and manpower) - during setup
Continuous Flow Production would be difficult - as the setup time is high
Load Levelling (Heijunka) becomes difficult - infrequent changeovers leading to large lot size - Products which takes more setting time will be avoided by the personnel
High Risk of Product Obsolescence - Changes in specification would make the WIP obsolete
A Simple and Low Cost solution to implement SMED in your unit?
We are organising a "30 Day SMED Challenge" - A competition on SMED in the month of Feb, Only for Manufacturing Companies in India.
For More Details about this event, please click this link
Here are some of the Details:
Event Name: 30 Days SMED Challenge
Overview:
1. We train your team on SMED (Group Training-Online)
2. Exercises and Implementation for 4 weeks.
3. At the end of 30 days, we reward the best performing teams.
Benefits of this Event:
1. Train your core team members on Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) at very affordable price
2. They would also implement SMED at your unit. Learning By Doing!
3. Improvement in Machine Availability & Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
4. Participants get to learn & interact with other participants, So Cross-learning opportunities!
5. Competing with other teams would improve their Presentation Skills and Leadership Skills
Who Can Participate?
1. Only for Companies with Manufacturing units located in India
2. Ideally this competition is for Medium Size Companies
a. Annual Revenue – From 100Cr to less than 500Cr
b. No of Employees – From 200 to around 1000 people
3. Only For Manufacturing Companies. Not for Service businesses (like Logistics, Warehousing, etc.)
4. Companies who are looking for continuous improvement
For More Details about this event, please click this link
2 Quotes for the Week
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow; Learn as if you were to live forever” - Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today” - Will Rogers
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One More thing:
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