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Single Minute Exchange of Die
Do you consider the loss of time when setting up your machines during a production change from product A to product B as significant and undesirable?
Would you welcome the possibility of batch production, while maintaining the economy of mass production?
Do you need to respond quickly and reliably to the customer’s wishes and not keep large inventories?
In that case, you need to reach for a well-proven method – Quick Change!
Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) is based on the following principles:
- The production change is performed by a well-functioning team of existing operators, tool setters and maintenance staff who work according to standards which they have proposed and tested themselves
- The team reduces the time necessary for the change by continuous improvements and support from the enterprise background
- The Quick Change is implemented gradually in complete technological chains
The result of implementing Quick Change in a traditional enterprise: radical shortening of the time necessary for the change and radical reduction of the optimum batch.
14.12.2006 14:37:17 | read 6734x | Jezek
